Egypt
Cultural Heritage Lawyer (Rick St Hilaire)
- Update On The Lady Ka-nefer-nefer (st Louis) Mask
Bizjournals (Matthew Hibbard) With photo of the mask A 3,200-year-old mummy mask located in gallery 130 inside the St. Louis Art Museum isn’t going anywhere soon. U.S. District Court Judge Henry Autry made that decision earlier this week, according...
- Commentary On Slam Mummy Mask Case
Cultural Heritage Lawyer (Rick St. Hilaire) The current civil litigation surrounding whether the Ka-Nefer-Nefer mummy mask is contraband is worth following given the current legal arguments in play. The mask, located at the St. Louis Art Museum...
- More Disputes In Ka-nefer-nefer Mummy Mask Case
Cultural Heritage Lawyer (Ricardo St Hilaire) In the latest round of legal papers filed in the case of United States v. Mask of Ka-Nefer-Nefer, the St. Louis Art Museum (SLAM) says that its possession of the ancient Egyptian mummy mask cannot be likened...
- The Repatriation Of The St Louis Mask Again Under Discussion
NewsDay A fight between the US government and the St Louis Art Museum over a death mask from ancient Egypt intensified last Wednesday as the government formally demanded the museum hand over the disputed object. The 3 200-year-old mask of Ka-Nefer-Nefer,...
- St. Louis Art Museum Files Suit
Google / The Canadian Press The St. Louis Art Museum has filed a federal lawsuit to try to keep a 3,200-year-old mummy mask that Egypt wants returned, claiming it was stolen. The museum says the U.S. government is trying to seize the 20-inch (51-centimetre)-long...
Egypt
St Louis Mask - US Claims SLAM Lacks Legal Standing
Cultural Heritage Lawyer (Rick St Hilaire)
In the latest round of papers filed in court last week, lawyers for the US Attorney’s Office in St. Louis sought to strike the St. Louis Art Museum’s legal claim in the federal lawsuit involving the mummy mask of Ka-Nefer-Nefer. Federal authorities sought forfeiture of the mask in March after the museum filed for a declaratory judgment in February seeking quiet title to the artifact. Both cases were filed in federal district court in St. Louis.
Federal attorneys, in their July 27 pleading, contend that SLAM’s “claim of ownership is legally impossible, and as such the Mask is effectively contraband in the hands of the Museum.” The government argues that Egypt’s patrimony law, which gives ownership rights of cultural property to the Egyptians, makes it impossible for the SLAM to own the mummy mask. Therefore, SLAM has no legal standing to assert that it can own the mask.
- Update On The Lady Ka-nefer-nefer (st Louis) Mask
Bizjournals (Matthew Hibbard) With photo of the mask A 3,200-year-old mummy mask located in gallery 130 inside the St. Louis Art Museum isn’t going anywhere soon. U.S. District Court Judge Henry Autry made that decision earlier this week, according...
- Commentary On Slam Mummy Mask Case
Cultural Heritage Lawyer (Rick St. Hilaire) The current civil litigation surrounding whether the Ka-Nefer-Nefer mummy mask is contraband is worth following given the current legal arguments in play. The mask, located at the St. Louis Art Museum...
- More Disputes In Ka-nefer-nefer Mummy Mask Case
Cultural Heritage Lawyer (Ricardo St Hilaire) In the latest round of legal papers filed in the case of United States v. Mask of Ka-Nefer-Nefer, the St. Louis Art Museum (SLAM) says that its possession of the ancient Egyptian mummy mask cannot be likened...
- The Repatriation Of The St Louis Mask Again Under Discussion
NewsDay A fight between the US government and the St Louis Art Museum over a death mask from ancient Egypt intensified last Wednesday as the government formally demanded the museum hand over the disputed object. The 3 200-year-old mask of Ka-Nefer-Nefer,...
- St. Louis Art Museum Files Suit
Google / The Canadian Press The St. Louis Art Museum has filed a federal lawsuit to try to keep a 3,200-year-old mummy mask that Egypt wants returned, claiming it was stolen. The museum says the U.S. government is trying to seize the 20-inch (51-centimetre)-long...