Post #704858 by Teadoir on Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:24 AM

You can make the same argument about menus and such. "I'm preserving a piece of tiki history!" It doesn't fly. You ask, you don't take. And more often than not, when indigenous people ask that items be returned by museums, they are not.

But that's all beside the point. We can't do much about what a large institution does, but we can choose to behave in an honorable manner ourselves. Which means not stealing from the places we love.