Manhattan DA’s Office Repatriates Eight Artifacts to Peru

The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office returned eight artifacts to Peru during a ceremony at the Peruvian consulate in New York on May 15.The items returned included funerary items that were taken illegally from tombs in northern Peru during the 1960s and ’70s. The return marks the second time New York officials have repatriated a group of works to Peru.Also among the returned objects is a copper mask believed to represent a fanged Moche deity Ai Apaec, which has historically been