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...artifact’s origin is often unclear, complicating the acquisitions process for museums. "That is certainly true for some objects in our collections," Ebbinghaus says. If the artifact has been recently dug up and looted, buyers should be able to recognize that it comes from a recently plundered location...
...Still, Ebbinghaus says, "the way collecting worked in Europe and the U.S. in the earlier part of the 20th century, there may have been documentation, but nobody ever paid much attention to it." A small statuette that shows up at an auction and lacks documentation may have been in a collection with poorly kept records—or it may have been looted...
...present, Ebbinghaus, among others, is considering alternatives to acquiring objects, such as exchanges and long-term loans. These agreements would resemble those made by the MFA and Princeton. But repatriation poses a problem when museums want to examine artifacts in-depth and on a long-term basis, as researchers may have less freedom to engage with items on loan...
...think in any case, it is good for museums to keep their own collection, because it means that things may be done with the objects that [they] might not be able to do with loans," Ebbinghaus says. "For instance, we have a conservation lab, and we can do technical research and give permission to do testing, which we would never get from a country that had an object on loan...
Furthermore, as part of Harvard, HUAM has a specific educational mission. As a result, Ebbinghaus says, HUAM wants to "continue collecting because we believe in having this collection here available for teaching purposes...