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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 11168919, member: 2844&quot;]Welcome [USER=95913]@cter[/USER] .</p><p>Repatriation is a broad and complex issue, which aspect of repatriation are you looking for? For instance the legality on either side, who is an item to be returned to, can there be conditions attached to the return, etc. And I see you added a photo of an African statue, is your focus on African pieces specifically?</p><p><br /></p><p>About the complexity, below is a link to a blog about the &quot;coming home&quot; of a Madurese keris which was in the UK.</p><p>In this case the supposed &quot;coming home&quot; is not from the UK to Madura, Indonesia, but to the Netherlands. The blog deals with the definition of &quot;coming home&quot; of an item gifted in an unequal colonial setting.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://carolinedrieenhuizen.wordpress.com/2023/03/08/the-coming-home-of-a-keris-a-gift-from-mangkuadiningrat-the-panembahan-of-madura-to-the-dutch-governor-general-of-colonial-indonesia-1834/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://carolinedrieenhuizen.wordpress.com/2023/03/08/the-coming-home-of-a-keris-a-gift-from-mangkuadiningrat-the-panembahan-of-madura-to-the-dutch-governor-general-of-colonial-indonesia-1834/" rel="nofollow">https://carolinedrieenhuizen.wordpress.com/2023/03/08/the-coming-home-of-a-keris-a-gift-from-mangkuadiningrat-the-panembahan-of-madura-to-the-dutch-governor-general-of-colonial-indonesia-1834/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>An added question would be, even if the keris were to be sent to its original home, would it go to Pamekasan, which was its first home, or would it end up in a national museum in Jakarta. Jakarta has a very different culture from Madura.</p><p>This is an issue I also see with some African items.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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