{"id":47445,"date":"2023-04-28T11:55:37","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T15:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/?p=47445"},"modified":"2024-02-23T07:43:19","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T12:43:19","slug":"pitfalls-exposed-in-the-mets-indigenous-art-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2023\/04\/pitfalls-exposed-in-the-mets-indigenous-art-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Pitfalls Exposed In The Met&#8217;s Indigenous Art Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_47446\" style=\"width: 242px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/main-image.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47446\" class=\"wp-image-47446\" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/main-image-219x300.jpg\" alt=\"A carved wooden mask with small slits for the mouth and eyes created by the Alutiiq people of Alaska.\" width=\"232\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/main-image-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/main-image-748x1024.jpg 748w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/main-image-768x1051.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/main-image.jpg 877w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-47446\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the Alutiiq masks from the Diker collection currently owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New York\u2019s Metropolitan Museum of Art has not had a good year. The Manhattan District Attorney\u2019s office and third-party investigators have found that many works in their antiquities collection were previously stolen or looted from their places of origin. I wrote about this when a New York judge granted Manhattan DA a warrant to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2023\/04\/stolen-antiquities-seized-from-the-met\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">seize several ancient Roman artifacts<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> looted from an archaeological site in Turkey in the 1960s. Furthermore, authorities found that several other artifacts had connections to the disgraced antiquities dealer Subhash Kapoor. And now, to compound upon the museum administration\u2019s woes, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ProPublica<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> released <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/the-met-museum-native-american-collections\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a report<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on Tuesday, April 25th, concerning the troubling facts about the Met\u2019s collection of indigenous American art.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some of the more notable pieces in the Met\u2019s Indigenous American art collection come from Charles and Valerie Diker. The <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Art of Native America<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> exhibit is ongoing at the Met, the entire contents of which came from the Dikers\u2019 collection. The Met relegates indigenous American, African, and Asian art to their own section of the museum that visitors often stumble into after passing through the Greco-Roman sculpture courtyard. However, the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Art of Native America<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> exhibition is situated in the more frequently-visited American Wing of the museum. ProPublica began researching the provenance of the Diker collection after Alaskan native Shyanne Beatty visited the Met in 2018. There, Beatty saw a pair of wooden masks made by Alaska\u2019s Alutiiq people that had been stolen in the 1870s. However, the official provenance provided by the Met only starts in 2003, when the Dikers purchased them in California. Beatty was intimately familiar with these masks, as they had been one of the subjects of a documentary she worked on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Metropolitan Museum of Art owns one hundred thirty-nine indigenous American artworks that were once part of Charles and Valerie Diker\u2019s collection. The couple has been loaning and donating works to the museum since 1993, and in 2017 they generously gifted ninety-one pieces from their collection to the Met. According to the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ProPublica<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> report, only 15% of these works have provenances that stand up to scrutiny, and some pieces have no provenance from before the Dikers purchased them. Of course, the Met is not the only American museum with substantial indigenous art collections. However, many of these museums, with less gallery space, fewer donors, and less prestigious reputations, ensure that when it comes to indigenous art, nearly all the pieces in their collections are thoroughly researched and have robust provenances. Some museums will refuse loans or donations if they lack provenance documentation.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_47447\" style=\"width: 291px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/main-image-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47447\" class=\"wp-image-47447 \" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/main-image-1-296x300.jpg\" alt=\"A clay jar with an abstract Indigenous Pueblo design in black and white.\" width=\"281\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/main-image-1-296x300.jpg 296w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/main-image-1-1011x1024.jpg 1011w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/main-image-1-768x778.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/main-image-1.jpg 1185w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 281px) 100vw, 281px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-47447\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 900-year-old Pueblo jar with a provenance that goes to only 1984.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even though legislation has been on the books in the United States for thirty years that should prevent museums from acquiring and keeping stolen or looted indigenous artworks, stories like this still pop into the news cycle again and again. When the Met received the Dikers\u2019 gift in 2017, the museum administration, as per the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990, had six months to reach out to the tribes from which the pieces may have originated. That way, the tribal cultural officials would have the opportunity to notify the museum if a piece had been stolen or looted and educate museum specialists about the artifacts and whether or not it\u2019s appropriate to display them in a museum setting. However, the Met often delays doing this. Regarding the Dikers\u2019 2017 gift, the Met did not notify the relevant government agencies until 2022. Additionally, a legal loophole in the 1990 law means that pieces loaned to a museum from a private collection are exempt from these requirements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because of the horrible treatment Indigenous American peoples have had to undergo due to official government policy and the actions of independent civilians, information about Indigenous cultural artifacts can be scarce, especially when they\u2019ve been stolen or looted. The Manhattan District Attorney\u2019s office can charge museum officials with criminal possession of stolen property. Still, charges are almost never filed since there\u2019s always reasonable doubt about the museum&#8217;s culpability.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even though many of these artifacts were stolen or looted decades or centuries ago, people tend to have very long memories when they have been wronged. Therefore, being accommodating to their requests can prove beneficial in several ways. The two Alutiiq masks at the Met were not the only masks that were stolen from Alaska. American and European settlers and explorers looted dozens of caves and burial sites, taking thousands of artifacts. One French looter donated dozens of indigenous artifacts, including many similar masks, to <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/musee.ville-boulogne-sur-mer.fr\/les-collections\/ethnographie-extra-europeenne\/amerique-du-nord\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a museum<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> near his home outside of Calais. Nearly a hundred years later, in 2008, the Alutiiq Museum in Kodiak, Alaska, collaborated with this French museum to send thirty-four masks to Alaska as a temporary loan. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/alutiiqmuseum.org\/explore\/past-exhibits\/278-like-a-face\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The exhibit<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that followed, as a result, had an immense impact. It not only served as a moment of healing for the local population but, according to the museum, local indigenous people are starting to relearn how to create these masks themselves, strengthening their connection to their ancestors and their culture. Repatriation can be a dirty word for some people, but this example shows its positive potential.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York\u2019s Metropolitan Museum of Art has not had a good year. The Manhattan District Attorney\u2019s office and third-party investigators have found that many works in their antiquities collection were previously stolen or looted from their places of origin. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2023\/04\/pitfalls-exposed-in-the-mets-indigenous-art-collection\/?contemporary=N\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":47446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[72,111,367,777,269,101,40,65,776,83,11,9,386,32,390],"class_list":["post-47445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rehs-galleries","category-rehs-contemporary","tag-american-art","tag-antiquities","tag-crime-and-punishment","tag-indigenous-art","tag-legal-matters","tag-looted-art","tag-museum-exhibitions","tag-museums","tag-native-art","tag-new-york-city","tag-rehs-contemporary-news","tag-rehs-galleries-news","tag-tales-from-the-dark-side","tag-the-dark-side","tag-theft"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pitfalls Exposed In The Met&#039;s Indigenous Art Collection<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"85% of the pieces in the Metropolitan Museum of Art&#039;s Diker Collection have inadequate provenance documentation.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2023\/04\/pitfalls-exposed-in-the-mets-indigenous-art-collection\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pitfalls Exposed In The Met&#039;s Indigenous Art Collection\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"85% of the pieces in the Metropolitan Museum of Art&#039;s Diker Collection have inadequate provenance documentation.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2023\/04\/pitfalls-exposed-in-the-mets-indigenous-art-collection\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rehs Galleries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RehsGalleriesInc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-04-28T15:55:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-02-23T12:43:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/main-image.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"877\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Nathan Scheer\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Nathan Scheer\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/2023\\\/04\\\/pitfalls-exposed-in-the-mets-indigenous-art-collection\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/2023\\\/04\\\/pitfalls-exposed-in-the-mets-indigenous-art-collection\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Nathan Scheer\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1d33fd182b28afdad8fc3548ffe6bdc4\"},\"headline\":\"Pitfalls Exposed In The Met&#8217;s Indigenous Art Collection\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-04-28T15:55:37+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-02-23T12:43:19+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/2023\\\/04\\\/pitfalls-exposed-in-the-mets-indigenous-art-collection\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":898,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/2023\\\/04\\\/pitfalls-exposed-in-the-mets-indigenous-art-collection\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/04\\\/main-image.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"American Art\",\"Antiquities\",\"Crime and Punishment\",\"indigenous art\",\"Legal Matters\",\"Looted Art\",\"Museum Exhibitions\",\"museums\",\"native art\",\"New York City\",\"Rehs Contemporary - Art World News\",\"Rehs Galleries - Art World News\",\"tales from the dark side\",\"The Dark Side of the Art World\",\"theft\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Rehs 19th &amp; 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