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Nature 415, 259 (17 January 2002) | doi:10.1038/415259c

Cultural heritage shared

Stephen Williams1

  1. PO Box 22354, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87502, USA

Your News report about the law covering repatriation of Native American items in California (Nature 414, 139; 2001) was even-handed and correct — it can be difficult to follow the NAGPRA statute.As a retired director of the Harvard Peabody Museum, I know the Tlingit totem pole shown in your photograph and it has been returned to the Tlingits.