Comments on: What’s a curator to do?

By: livius drusus

livius drusus — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:27:38 +0000

Oh yes, I have heard about the whale hunt controversy. I hadn’t heard about the museum and dig, though. That’s exactly the kind of collaboration we need to see more of to fight the looting beast.

By: P-dub

P-dub — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 09:44:03 +0000

Here in Washington state on the Makah reservation they built a museum from a local dig. It is quite fascinating and everything to do with the indigenous people who still inhabit the land. You may have heard the controversy over them being allowed to hunt whale as part of their culture and was granted the right.

By: livius drusus

livius drusus — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:24:26 +0000

I didn’t know about the Kolomoki looting, but I’m sadly not surprised.

Thank you for the link. I’m collecting looting stories for a blog entry dedicated to what “looting” actually means in concrete terms.

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:02:51 +0000

Oh, I read on Google Reader pretty much every day or so. This is a truly global issue. You might not know, liv, but the state park museum at Kolomoki State Park in south Georgia was itself looted of some of its most interesting artifacts in 1974. Most have not been recovered, but you can learn more about it (PS If I screwed up the link tags, sorry!)

By: livius drusus

livius drusus — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:47:38 +0000

Thank you for asking. (And for the )