Returning sacred heritage: The Tohono O’odham Nation reclaims items from a New York museum.
In short: Cultural specialist Samuel Fayuant details the repatriation of over 120 artifacts from the American Museum of Natural History to the Tohono O’odham Nation. This video highlights the significance of returning ancestral belongings, including a ceremonial outfit once worn by a man named Simon, to their rightful community.
In 1911, explorer Carl Lumholtz sold a vast collection of ethnographic objects acquired from the Tohono O’odham to the American Museum of Natural History. After beginning formal discussions in 2019, the museum hosted tribal representatives in 2021 to finalize the return of these cultural treasures to southern Arizona.
Among the repatriated items is a ceremonial outfit associated with the sacred Vikita ceremony. For the Tohono O’odham, the return of these objects is a meaningful act of restoring heritage that had been held within the museum's anthropology division for over a century.
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- Also: www.tonation-nsn.gov — Home - Tohono O'odham Nation
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