Lost and Stolen Images


The purpose of this web site is:

1. to provide students and scholars with access to visual materials that have
been lost or stolen from their place of origin or museum collections.

2. to help prevent the perpetuation of art theft throughout Asia by providing
collectors, art dealers, and museum curators with visual references to works
of art that are know or believed to have been stolen.

3. to increase awareness about the growing problem of art theft throughout Asia.



The countries currently covered in this site are Afghanistan and Nepal. Because of the current political state of Afghanistan and the looting of the Kabul Museum, all Huntington Archive photographs taken in 1970 at the Kabul Museum (162 black and white) have been included in this site, whether or not they actually have been stolen, damaged, or lost. Images included in the Nepal site comprise only a fraction of works that have been lost, stolen, or destroyed from this part of the Himalayan region.

Unless otherwise indicated, the photographs contained in this site were taken by John C. and Susan L. Huntington. In the case of Nepal, a majority of the photographs were taken by Lain Singh Bangdel. All of the images in this site are copyrighted. Please feel free to view them from this site, however, none of these images should be downloaded or duplicated in any way without the permission of the copyright holders.

A special thanks goes to Joanna Williams and John C. Huntington for bringing the issue of the Kabul Museum and the future of its works at the 1996 meeting of the American Council of Southern Asian Art in Minneapolis, MN.


YOU CAN HELP!
Please contact us if you have suggestions or photographs
of your own that you would like to contribute to the site.

Created 12 Februrary, 1997 by Janice Glowski; Last updated on November 2004 by Dina Bangdel. This site incorporates Dublin Core Metadata.

This WWW server is provided by The Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Related Art (http://kaladarshan.arts.ohio-state.edu/), College of the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.

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