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How FBI & Twitter thread helped Nepal recover statue stolen 37 years ago

How FBI & Twitter thread helped Nepal recover statue stolen 37 years ago
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Looted in the 1980s, a sacred stele at the Dallas Museum of Art is headed back to Nepal

The eight-armed Stele of Lakshmi-Narayana from around the 10th or 11th century, depicting two Hindu deities in an amalgam Courtesy of the Dallas Museum of Art A 10th- or 11th-century stele that disappeared from a Hindu shrine in Nepal in 1984 and was later lent by an American collector to the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) is being turned over to the Nepalese Embassy in Washington, DC for repatriation. The stele, carved in grey stone, depicts two Hindu deities, Vishnu and his consort, Lakshmi, as a composite. It had been on loan to the Dallas museum since 1990, soon after it was auctioned at Sotheby’s in New York.

Dallas Museum of Art to return sacred statue to Nepal

Dallas Museum of Art to return sacred statue to Nepal
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FBI and Dallas Museum of Art team up to send stolen artwork back to Nepal

FBI and Dallas Museum of Art team up to send stolen artwork back to Nepal The piece, a stone carving depicting two Hindu gods, is being returned to its home country. Representatives from the FBI and the Dallas Museum of Art pose behind a carved stone monument that is being returned to Nepal.(Chadwick Redmon) After conducting its own investigation, the FBI helped arrange an agreement between the Dallas Museum of Art and the Embassy of Nepal to return to that country a rare piece of art loaned to the DMA 30 years ago. As the investigation confirmed, the piece had been stolen.

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