Hawaii Artifact dispute question? NEW UPDATE Page 5 - General Tiki

C christiki295 Member LA-2547 mls east Hawaii &5500 Easter Is Joined: Apr 09, 2003 Posts: 3837	C christiki295 Posted posted on Tue, Jun 1, 2004 6:37 PM TraderWoody, I do not disagree with you that the British Museum is a wonderful institution with numerous artifacts. Also, I personally loved my visit there and, yes, such strong rhetoric is unnecessary (particularly on a board like this where its all about tiki). Nevertheless, the first page of a google search provided the following: http://www.chn.ir/english/eshownews.asp?no=1195 The British Museum’s general claim is that it “has the resources to preserve them better than the country from which they were taken.” It has regularly rejected demands for the return of the 51 Parthenon sculptures, made by the Greek government, now supported by a group of athletes under the banner of British Committee for the Restitution of the Marbles. The Chinese, too, want back 23,000 of their national relics in the British Museum.Understandably, they were annoyed last July when Tony Blair shrugged off their request. “Sorry about that,” he quipped during a visit to Beijing. “It’s something that happened in history.”

TraderWoody, I do not disagree with you that the British Museum is a wonderful institution with numerous artifacts. Also, I personally loved my visit there and, yes, such strong rhetoric is unnecessary (particularly on a board like this where its all about tiki).

Nevertheless, the first page of a google search provided the following:

http://www.chn.ir/english/eshownews.asp?no=1195

The British Museum’s general claim is that it “has the resources to preserve them better than the country from which they were taken.”

It has regularly rejected demands for the return of the 51 Parthenon sculptures, made by the Greek government, now supported by a group of athletes under the banner of British Committee for the Restitution of the Marbles.

The Chinese, too, want back 23,000 of their national relics in the British Museum.Understandably, they were annoyed last July when Tony Blair shrugged off their request. “Sorry about that,” he quipped during a visit to Beijing. “It’s something that happened in history.”

Post #93967 by christiki295 on Tue, Jun 1, 2004 6:37 PM