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Peru gets pre-Columbian pieces back

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Peru has recovered 18 archaeological pieces, including a pre-Columbian copper funeral mask, smuggled out of the country and later handed over voluntarily by a German collector, officials said on Tuesday.

The collector turned in the pieces to the Peruvian consulate in Hamburg in 2004, because he "considered it his moral responsibility to restore this part of Peru's archaeological heritage, which had been illegally removed from our country", the foreign ministry said in a statement.

The ministry said it took more than two years to repatriate the objects because they had to be authenticated and insured for shipment.

Among the objects are small animal sculptures and ceramics that likely belonged to the pre-Incan Chimu, Viru and Mochica cultures, the president of Peru's cultural institute, Cecilia Bakula, told journalists.
"The pieces are extraordinary," she said. "The quality of these pieces is very good."

In September last year a 1 300-year-old gold headdress representing a sea god was handed over to cultural authorities after it was located by British police in London. And in June the United States returned 412 ancient Peruvian artifacts seized in a Florida smuggling investigation.

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Peru and US Celebrate Return of Artifacts by Renewing Agreement by bat400 on Saturday, 11 August 2007
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Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, Karen Hughes, Peru's General Director of Cultural Patrimony, Ambassador Liliana Cino and Peru's Director of the National Institute of Culture (INC), Cecilia Bákula participated in an event to extend a bilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that protects Peru's cultural patrimony.

The event took place at Peru's National Museum, where the officials expressed the importance and success achieved due to the Memorandum of Understanding, which has now been extended to 2012.

The recovery of over 300 archaeological artifacts, recovered from Miami, Florida, U.S., was announced and attributed to the MOU restricting the import of pre-Columbian archaeological artifacts and Colonial ethnological materials from all areas of Peru.

"The Memorandum of Understanding has turned into a tool that facilitates the legal documentation for the defense and repatriation of pieces important to our cultural patrimony," said Peru's Director of the National Institute of Culture.

It was also reported that an agreement will be made with the University of Yale in the U.S. with respect to pieces taken form the ruins of Machu Picchu in Peru. Yale will, for the first time, give an inventory of the thousands of pieces they possess.
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