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12:54am July 16, 2013
nativeamericannews: After ‘Shameful’ Auction in Paris, Sacred Katsinam Returned to Hopis One of the Hopi katsinam connected to a controversial Parisian auction in April has come home to the Hopi people. In a story that captivated ICTMN readers and many in the auction business, some 70 sacred objects, most of them Hopi katsinam, were sold by the auction house Neret-Minet Tessier & Sarrou. The sale proceeded despite strenuous objections from the Hopi tribe and a last-minute legal attempt to stop (or at least delay) it by the group Survival International. That challenge was argued, unsuccessfuly, by lawyer Pierre Servan-Schreiber.

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After ‘Shameful’ Auction in Paris, Sacred Katsinam Returned to Hopis

One of the Hopi katsinam connected to a controversial Parisian auction in April has come home to the Hopi people. In a story that captivated ICTMN readers and many in the auction business, some 70 sacred objects, most of them Hopi katsinam, were sold by the auction house Neret-Minet Tessier & Sarrou. The sale proceeded despite strenuous objections from the Hopi tribe and a last-minute legal attempt to stop (or at least delay) it by the group Survival International. That challenge was argued, unsuccessfuly, by lawyer Pierre Servan-Schreiber.

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    Wonderful news!
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    Good, now the rest need to go back to them.
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