The Case of the Missing Artefact
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The Case of the Missing Artefact
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The researcher did not disclose his likely possession of a significant religious artefact to the Native American community he was researching when deciding whether or not to keep it. The item had previously belonged to a religious leader and had been missing for 20 years. The ethnographer had bought it from a trading post 20 years previously.