Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology to Repatriate Cultural Items to Northern Arapaho Tribe
May 02, 2025
May 02, 2025
WASHINGTON, May 2 (TNSFR) -- The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (PMAE) at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, has announced its intention to repatriate two objects of cultural patrimony to the Northern Arapaho Tribe of the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming.
The items, a medicine rattle and a headdress, were originally acquired by Joseph Swaim from Chief Yellow Calf of the Northern Arapaho Tribe in 1931. These cultural items were later donated to the museum in . . .
The items, a medicine rattle and a headdress, were originally acquired by Joseph Swaim from Chief Yellow Calf of the Northern Arapaho Tribe in 1931. These cultural items were later donated to the museum in . . .