Dallas Museum of Art to Return Sacred Statue to Nepal
The museum is returning the sculpture, which was looted from a temple in the 1980s. The move comes after researchers raised concerns about its provenance.
This sacred stele of Lakshmi-Narayana was taken in 1984. It is now going to be returned to Nepal.Credit.Dallas Museum of Art
By Zachary Small
March 4, 2021
A stone sculpture representing a Hindu deity is making its way back to Nepal nearly 40 years after it disappeared from a temple shrine and ended up in the Dallas Museum of Art.
For more than eight centuries, the sacred stele of Lakshmi-Narayana, a manifestation of the Hindu deities Vishnu and Lakshmi, watched over devotees in the Nepalese city of Patan until it suddenly disappeared, stolen by looters in 1984. Six years later, the eight-armed figure reappeared at auction at Sotheby’s, selling to a collector, who then lent it to the Dallas museum.
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Reedsville church to host speakers
REEDSVILLE Schrader United Methodist Church will host the following speakers during 8:30 a.m. services in February:
¯Feb. 14 Eric Packard
¯Feb. 21– Bradley Kauffman
“It will be even bigger next year,” Thomson said. “I’ve got people who say they’re going to participate next year, and are already thinking about how they’ll be preparing.” Thomson, originally from the United States, said neighbourhood garage sales were “pretty common practice” where she came from but “unique” to New Zealanders.
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Irene Palmer, left, Murray Crampton, and Deborah and Kevin O Neill at the garage sale which stretched from one end of Fairlie to the other. “The people who participated commented on how nice it was to meet or catch up with neighbours. It’s a really social event.”
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Great Fairlie Garage Sale organiser Erin Thomson with some of her garage sale items – excluding her dog, Charlie.
A Fairlie woman’s New Year clear-out has morphed into a giant garage sale stretching from “tip to tail” of the small South Canterbury town. Bargain hunters can grab a map at Fairlie’s Saturday market and pick through wares at 25 garage sales, including two on the road to Albury – before heading to the village green for two hours of live music from Mackenzie musicians Brett Walker and Brad Staley. Organiser Erin Thomson, of Heartlands Resource Centre, said the event came about because she had been planning her own garage sale as part of a New Year clean-out, and put the call out on social media for people to join her.
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