Interview Eleven
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Esfandiari, Aziz
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content: National Museum of Afghanistan Oral Histories
unitdate: label: Date
content: May 3, 2024
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
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content: FSA.A2024.03, File 11
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content: Archival materials
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content: This session focuses on events beyond repatriation efforts that occurred under Mr. Masoudi's leadership at the National Museum of Afghanistan. Mr. Masoudi discusses smugglers and the difficulties of dealing with claims of mummified bodies, which were disproved; attending a 2003 seminar in Washington, DC where a Norwegian journalist asked about looted Buddhist-era manuscripts; pursuing repatriation of the manuscripts with the journalist and the Minister of Information and Culture; National Geographic Images of the Tillya Tepe artifacts; Fred Hiebert, National Geographic and their help with inventory of museum collections and an exhibition in France, then in US.