Word: object
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...HUAM's policy stipulates that the person in charge of a given exhibit, its curator, "should have reasonable assurance under the circumstances that the object has not...been exported from its country of origin (and/or the country where it was last legally owned) in violation of that country's laws...
...Every object should be subject to scrutiny before the fact, and it should be able to be demonstrated that it is not problematic," Winter says. "I'm asking for a more rigorous active policy...
...does research prior to acquisition. If confident, even without documentation or without all questions answered [that the piece has not been illegally acquired]," Cuno says, "then one can acquire [a piece] provided that one continues to do research and make public one's acquisition of that object...
...that end, the committee required "reasonable assurance" that the object had valid documentation...
...necessary for interpreting the nature, the age, the use of that particular object," she said...