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Two presenters who met at a 2017 conference at W&L joined forces to repatriate a stolen Nepali deity


 
Two presenters who met at a 2017 conference at W&L joined forces to repatriate a stolen Nepali deity
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Story by Lindsey Nair
Professional conferences usually are considered a success when attendees pick up innovative ideas, do some networking or even land a plum job. But those outcomes sound mundane compared to what happened in the aftermath of a 2017 conference at Washington and Lee University.
After meeting at a conference on the ethics of acquiring cultural heritage objects in March of that year, two presenters – artist and activist Joy Lynn Davis and Erin Thompson, an art crime professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice – began a collaboration that would ultimately lead to an FBI investigation, ....

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How FBI & Twitter thread helped Nepal recover statue stolen 37 years ago


How FBI & Twitter thread helped Nepal recover statue stolen 37 years ago
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Ateet Sharma ( IANS)
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How FBI & Twitter thread helped Nepal recover statue stolen 37 years ago.. Image Source: IANS News
New Delhi , March 11, Thirty-seven years after it was stolen and subsequently landed in the US, a stone stele of Lakshmi-Narayan, depicting the Hindu deities of Lord Vishnu and Goddess Lakshmi, is finally returning to its original home in Patan, a city located just across the Bagmati river from Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal.
Last week, Yuba Raj Khatiwada, the Ambassador of Nepal in Washington, received the statue of Vasudeva-Kamalaja (also known as Lakshmi-Narayan) handed over from the representative of the US Government Timothy Dunham, Deputy Assistant Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), in a ceremony organized at the Nepalese embassy. ....

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