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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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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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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.
Yates, D., Mackenzie, S. and Smith, E. (2017) ‘The cultural capitalists: Notes on the ongoing reconfiguration of trafficking culture in Asia’, Crime, Media, Culture, 13(2), pp. 245–254.

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