PHOENIX — A Paris judge will decide Thursday whether to block the sale of 70 “sacred objects” of Hopi origin by a French auction house. The sacred objects date back to the 1930s. At least one of the ...

Sacred Object or Ancient Weapon? Where is the Ark of the Covenant and what technology did it use? Even though UFOs are seen everywhere: over the desert, over the ocean, over cities; there's no way to ...

Three hundred and thirty-five artifacts, including 34 sacred objects, previously stored at UC Berkeley’s Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology are now in Hawaiʻi, following repatriation work by ...

Part 1. Exhibiting Hindu and Sikh Religious Objects in Museums. 1. What do Indian images really want? : a biographical approach / Richard H. Davis ; 2. Under the gaze of Kali : exhibitionism in the ...

An item described as a “model of a Shaman’s guardian figure” from the Central Council of Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska had been removed from a display case at the DIA. A placard in its place ...

Museums are great levelers. Inside their walls, narratives, portraits, icons and altarpieces become paintings; crucifixes, totems and temple gods become sculptures; sacred objects, out of context, ...

(The Conversation) — Through the power of rituals, inanimate objects can be understood to transform into agents who can see, hear, taste and respond to the concerns of those who worship them. (The ...