[Sacajaweau]

Our local Museum is loaded with COPIES of artifacts. There was a program for these to be produced en masse. I was always proud of our Museum....until I found this out.

And because this WAS a program...I'll bet there are a lot of Museums that have done the same.

[Red Badger]

Actual artifacts are relatively rare because of the organic materials used. They deteriorate and become dust in the wind over time.

Now, if those ‘copies’ were made by actual Native Americans that are still alive, is it any different that they weren’t made by someone whose been dead for a couple of centuries?

Making ‘artifacts’ for museum displays used to be a business that tribal nations ran................