Illinois State Museum’s return of sacred statues to Kenya part of ongoing reexamination of cultural artifacts
“We can’t demonstrably state these in particular were stolen, but all the circumstantial evidence sort of points to that,” said Brooke Morgan, the curator of anthropology at the state museum system, a consortium of four museums around Illinois.Known as vigango, the statues are life-size wooden planks with carved heads with intricately painted faces.
It became clear to experts that while it’s difficult to trace exactly how the vigango wound up in U.S. museums, the statues were not likely to have been obtained in an ethical fashion since their spiritual significance make it unlikely the Mijikenda would have engaged in wholesale sale or trade. In recent years, museums around the world have been reconsidering the ethics of how items in their collections were sourced, and in some cases returning items that are suspected to have been stolen or are deemed sacred to the country of origin.
In response, the museum said the data ProPublica cited was outdated and that it continues efforts to repatriate remains. In making the argument for his bill, Walker referenced the Cherokee Indians who died in Illinois on what’s known as the Trail of Tears.“Take the Cherokee remains given back to the Cherokee tribe in Oklahoma,” Walker said on the House floor in May. “A member of that nation told me ‘It’s like redoing the Trail of Tears where not only did you force us out of the Midwest and into Oklahoma but you’re going to force us to move our bones there as well.
“The Illinois State Museum is working to be a trusted partner to Indigenous communities worldwide through our repatriation efforts and beyond,” the museum’s former director, Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko, said in April 2021.
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