![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2017, as other institutions grappled with returning colonial-era spoils, the Met announced the Dikers’ gift of another 91 Native American works.Ī ProPublica review of records the museum has posted online found that only 15% of the 139 works donated or loaned by the Dikers over the years have solid or complete ownership histories, with some lacking any provenance at all. The Dikers, who have amassed one of the most significant private collections of Native American works, have been donating or lending objects to the Met since 1993. Ownership was transferred to the Met in 2017. But the museum’s timeline doesn’t start until 2003, when the Dikers bought them from a collector. Historians say the masks were taken in 1871. The Met’s ownership history for the masks, also known as provenance, omits more than a century of their whereabouts. ![]()
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