India
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Maithuna from Atru
Two 9th/10th century reliefs stolen from a temple in Rajasthan in 2009 and returned from the United States in early 2014.
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Pangboche Hand
The Pangboche Hand is an alleged Yeti hand, stolen from a Nepali monastery. A finger was stolen in 1958 and smuggled by actor James Stewart and the complete hand was stolen in the early 1990s.
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Vaman Ghiya
Indian antiquities dealer accused of selling stolen antiquities through Sotheby’s.
Related Publications
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Brodie, N. (2019), ‘The Criminal Organization of the Transnational Trade in Cultural Objects: Two Case Studies’, in S. Hufnagel and D. Chappell (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook on Art Crime. London: Routledge, 439–461.
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