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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kirispupis, post: 7787842, member: 118780&quot;]Either they didn&#039;t anticipate losing the lawsuit, or they wanted to use the lawsuit to draw attention to their cause and urge a change to the laws.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s one <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/fbi-trying-return-thousands-stolen-artifacts-including-native-american-remains-amassed-indiana-collector-180971604/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/fbi-trying-return-thousands-stolen-artifacts-including-native-american-remains-amassed-indiana-collector-180971604/" rel="nofollow">article </a>that sheds light on it (though they were seized by the FBI and not customs). My suspicion is the destination is the same: they&#039;re placed in a warehouse where either a country will make a claim to them (doubtful in this case), or someone will eventually make a call on where they&#039;ll go, perhaps in 50 years or so</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s a bill preventing the export of native american artifacts. <a href="https://culturalpropertynews.org/atada-testimony-on-stop-act/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://culturalpropertynews.org/atada-testimony-on-stop-act/" rel="nofollow">Here&#039;s </a>a discussion (against) it. The American Antiquities Act also prevents the export of looted items from archeological sites.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The troll force lives strong in you.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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