"They will be cared for, and they will be returning home,"
"Their repatriation not only safeguards an important part of heritage, but it also allows their history to continue as an enduring part of the Thai nation,"
"I would credit Thai scholars and researchers for all this work. What they did was talk to all the villagers who were alive and even the looters who remembered where the objects came and who were the dealers,"
"In the 1960s even the curators here expressed doubt whether they were legally removed, and it was really interesting to see that early on people had questions about them, but that time choose to ignore it,"
Four religious sculptures stolen from a northeastern Thai temple in the mid-1960s were returned to Thailand from the San Francisco Asian Art Museum after fifty years. Thai government officials attended the transfer and the statues will be cared for upon return. Investigations traced the objects' journey to sales by a London art dealer to a private collector and museums worldwide. The museum had received the sculptures as donor gifts and had earlier questioned their origins. Thai scholars, villagers and former looters provided information that helped confirm provenance. The repatriation aims to safeguard cultural heritage and restore the objects to the national collection.
Read at ABC7 San Francisco
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