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Print At least six sculptures, potentially as many as 19, stolen during an 1897 massacre by British colonists in Africa have been sitting quietly in two Los Angeles art museum collections for the past half-century. That status is likely to change. Pressure has been building for longer than a decade for the return of thousands of objects looted from the Royal Palace in Benin City, located in what is southern Nigeria. Repatriation of Benin art is as essential as restitution for art looted during the Holocaust, which this theft resembles. Britain’s invading imperial forces were after natural ...

Commentary: Two L.A. museums hold art looted during an African massacre a century ago Christopher Knight © (Don Cole / UCLA Fowler Museum ) An 18th century belt mask by the Edo peoples is decorated with frogs. (Don Cole / UCLA Fowler Museum ) At least six sculptures, potentially as many as 19, stolen during an 1897 massacre by British colonists in Africa have been sitting quietly in two Los Angeles art museum collections for the past half-century. That status is likely to change. Pressure has been building for longer than a decade for the return of thousands of objects loot...