Descendant Communities

Illustration from the “Sinday” tales painted by Kiowa artist Silver Horn, or Haungooah, and collected by by Gen. Hugh L. Scott; Cat. No. 2-4922

The Hearst Museum values descendant community involvement as a cornerstone of its day-to-day operations. These ongoing relationships range from community-based exhibitions of objects, to visits to and interactions with the collections, to the repatriation of collections.

For more information, to open a conversation or to propose a collaboration, please contact the Museum’s Executive Director at pahma-execdirector@berkeley.edu.

For information on UC Berkeley’s priority to return Native American ancestors and belongings under NAGPRA and CalNAGPRA, please visit the NAGPRA program website.