Once we might have gone to an anthropologist for that answer, but anthropologists remove the humanity, passion, and life from the objects. There are many items in the Heye Center exhibits that I consider sensitive. You can't tell the Indian story without the religious. This is integral to our existence. Sacredness in the Indian world is like the early morning dew, it falls over everything.
Nothing is exempt, everything is sacred.
But there are degrees of sacredness, places where the dew only lightly touched, and others where the dew heavily coated. These are the areas of intense sacredness, of power. The bottom line is that we have to go back to our communities for these answers, to the elders. We are going to have to deal with them. If they say we can't show it, we can't show it.