Yale Begins Returning the Machu Picchu Materials
2011-03-30
The first shipment arrived in Lima on 30 March 2011: intact objects suitable for exhibition, pottery fragments, and other archaeological material from Machu Picchu. After a temporary display at the Government Palace, the pieces were to go to Cusco. They had spent nearly a century at Yale University. [3]
Hiram Bingham’s expeditions had removed the materials during the early twentieth century. Their return became the subject of negotiations between Yale and the Peruvian government. An accord announced in November 2010 set a two year timetable, with the display pieces to reach Peru in time for the centenary of Bingham’s 1911 expedition. [1] [2]
Yale and the Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco established a partnership around a research center and museum in Cusco, where the collection could be studied. Further shipments followed the first crates. [2]
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Sources
- Statement on the Machu Picchu materials — Yale University
Accord and return schedule; the source’s “discovery” framing is not adopted
- The Peru–Yale partnership and Machu Picchu artifacts — Yale News
2010 accord, 2011 return, and Cusco research center
- First Machu Picchu shipment arrives in Peru — Andina
Arrival, Government Palace display, and intact objects and fragments
- Diplomatic Representation for the Republic of Peru
- Alfonso Arias Schreiber — mission record (1979–1980)
- FBI Returns Paintings to Peru
Repatriation ceremony and recovery history
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Yale Begins Returning the Machu Picchu Materials. Chanceries Diplopedia. Record 93ab49e58ea36acc6ef2. https://chanceries.org/research/history/peru-artifacts-bb22dfe1cd/