Interview Six
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Esfandiari, Aziz
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content: National Museum of Afghanistan Oral Histories
unitdate: label: Date
content: January 5, 2024
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: FSA.A2024.03, File 6
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content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This interview focuses on government efforts to curb smuggling, as well as Mr. Masoudi's personal background, education, and career. Mr. Masoudi discusses lack of interest in repurchasing artifacts; individuals who helped recover artifacts; and care for the Tillya Tepe artifacts. Conversation then shifts to Mr. Masoudi's background, beginning with his childhood, including experiences in primary school; traveling to Kabul for high school and university; experiencing culture clashes between the rural culture of his childhood and urban life at university; people who influenced him; teaching high school; time in the Kushan Research Department of the Ministry of Information and Culture; transitioning to the National Museum of Afghanistan; colleagues at the Museum; his personal life – marriage and family; his involvement in civic and nonprofit organizations; honors he has received; and opportunities to visit archaeological sites in Afghanistan.