ARTICLE DATEARTICLE AUTHOR AUTHOR EMAIL May 25, 2021 A special ceremony held last week in Australia celebrated 17 sacred objects from the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection at the University of Virginia being repatriated to the Arrernte, Warlpiri and Warumungu communities in Central Australia. Kluge-Ruhe’s collection at UVA consists of more than 2,100 paintings, ornaments, weapons, tools and other items and is the only museum outside of Australia dedicated to the exhibition and study of Indigenous Australian art and culture. Most of those items have been purchased through Indigenous art centers from artists who created them specifically as artworks intended to be sold, and often sold abroad.