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Navajos buy back sacred masks at Paris auction - StarTribune.com

20.4.19

THOMAS ADAMSON and FELICIA FONSECA // Navajos buy back sacred masks at Paris auction - StarTribune.com: "They are sacred masks ... and unfortunately they end up here. Whether that is legal or illegal ... we don't know," said Jim, a medicine man who offered prayers to the masks that embody Navajo deities. "What we do know is that they are for sale."

The Navajo Nation took a different approach than its Hopi neighbor in northeastern Arizona, which has seen losses of ceremonial items at auctions in France that were deemed legal to private collectors.


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