‘Trafficking’ in artefacts
fN.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, Nov. 30. The trafficking in Maori artefacts in New Zealand for commercial gain was causing considerable concern, an ethnologist at the Auckland War Memorial Museum, Mr D. R. Simmons, said today. Collectors were prepared to pay big prices for artefacts as investments, he said. Pieces of great scientific importance were being sold
to dealers, and other people interested in the artefacts could not get at them because they could not afford them, Mr Simmons said. “This trafficking is also causing the artefacts to be priced out of the range of museums, and there is nothing we can really do about it” Mr Simmons expressed concern that Maori artefacts were finding their way to the United States, Australia and Europe.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32778, 1 December 1971, Page 3
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