Posted on 07/31/2022 6:06:07 PM PDT by marshmallow
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican Museums are home to some of the most magnificent artworks in the world, from Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel to ancient Egyptian antiquities and a pavilion full of papal chariots. But one of the museum’s least-visited collections is becoming its most contested before Pope Francis’ trip to Canada.
The Vatican’s Anima Mundi Ethnological Museum, located near the food court and right before the main exit, houses tens of thousands of artifacts and art made by Indigenous peoples from around the world, much of it sent to Rome by Catholic missionaries for a 1925 exhibition in the Vatican gardens.
The Vatican says the feathered headdresses, carved walrus tusks, masks and embroidered animal skins were gifts to Pope Pius XI, who wanted to celebrate the Church’s global reach, its missionaries and the lives of the Indigenous peoples they evangelized.
But Indigenous groups from Canada, who were shown a few items in the collection when they traveled to the Vatican last spring to meet with Francis, question how some of the works were actually acquired and wonder what else may be in storage after decades of not being on public display.
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Stop ripping off the oppressed
Indian givers.
(Too obvious?)
:)
It had to be said.
Har.
Typical Indian-givers.
Indians are all about MONEY...They cry foul...and we pay. Nothing has changed...
Apparently the current pope's recent canadian exhibition failed to appease the natives.
Send the roadside trinkets back. They want them, they should get them.
If thewy gave them away...which they did...they belong to the Church. Who the heck would rip off a church?
Sounds like they are real…Indian givers
Most museums record how an item came into possession.
Gift of Rich Philadelphian, 1942....
Bequest of estate of Rich New Yorker, 1953....
Purchase by Museum Acquistion Fund, 1972....
In return for an artwork, donors usually expect a notice of generosity (Gift of Mr. Fatcat) to be displayed along with the artwork.
Priests didn’t go into Indian villages and snatch up interesting items.
The items were:
a) given to a church or priest beforehand,
b) requested by a priest from a tribe or tribal member,
c) sent by a tribe or tribal member to the Vatican, or
d) given by a previous purchaser (or heir thereof) of the item.
they were won as blackjack prizes when the popes played blackjack there in the Indian casinos.
And it only took 3 posts to get there. LOL
They’re probably demon possessed anyways.
Frankie will be unlikely to give them back then.
Send them back. Nobody goes to the Vatican museums to see that junk. There’s more interest and expertise in the New World. Send it back.
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