New Mexico tribe celebrates return of pueblo cultural items

 

December 20, 2018



ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Tribal and federal officials celebrated the return Wednesday of dozens of cultural items to Acoma Pueblo's nearly 1,000-year-old village in New Mexico after the tribe spent years pressing for the repatriations of ceremonial items from galleries, auction houses and private collections worldwide.

Acoma Pueblo tribal Gov. Kurt Riley called the return of the items a "great joy and relief," while noting in a statement that the pueblo has yet to recover a shield that features the face of a Kachina, or ancestral spirit, from a Paris auction house.

That shield remains at...



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