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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.
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.
Vaman Ghiya
Indian antiquities dealer accused of selling stolen antiquities through Sotheby’s.
Related Publications
Brodie, N. (2019) ‘The Criminal Organization of the Transnational Trade in Cultural Objects: Two Case Studies’, in Hufnagel, S. and Chappell, D. (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook on Art Crime, London: Routledge, pp. 439–461.