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...many of the slit drums and skull cradles are empty, for new European head-hunters have been prowling the river regions, ethnic art dealers armed with dollars and euros more deadly to native culture than any dagger. "These items are going to private homes," says p.n.g. National Museum director Soroi Eoe, the man responsible for thwarting the theft of cultural artifacts. "They are being lost not just to Papua New Guinea, but to the world. Under the law, these human remains are a prohibited export...
...tempting source of additional income for populations living in poverty, above all in the country of origin of the cultural goods," notes a 2004 United Nations report. It estimates the international trade in "looted, stolen or smuggled art" at $4.5 billion to $6 billion a year. In p.n.g., says museum director Eoe, the trade in illegal artifacts is probably "a multi-million-dollar business, but we don't really have any idea of the true extent...
...With toothless laws and scant resources, Eoe and the National Museum are fighting an unequal battle against well-organized collectors who slip into the country across unmarked borders and ship out containers full of historic pieces, which are highly prized on the international market. In December last year, p.n.g. police were tipped off about two small boxes left at a DHL courier's office in the sleepy port town of Wewak, near the mouth of the Sepik. Both were to be shipped to private addresses in Germany and appeared to have been given security checks by the shipping agent...
...Officers were dispatched to the Semitic Museum to take a report of harassing phone calls...
...Bomb WWW Museum Go to the bottom of the page for a detailed history of the atomic bombing in Hiroshima. The "Hiroshima Today" section interviews children and citizens about their knowledge of the A-bomb...