How many objects at the National Museum of Natural History fall under repatriation legislation?
A wide range of objects in the museum’s collections have the potential of being claimed by a tribe as a funerary object, sacred object, or object of cultural patrimony. The National Museum of Natural History collections include 231,553 catalog records for archaeological objects and 57,015 Native American ethnological catalog records from the U.S. Each catalog record may contain from one to several thousand items.
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- How many objects at the National Museum of Natural History fall under repatriation legislation?
