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Examines the return of wampum belts by the Trustees of the Museum of the American Indian to the Six Nations Confederacy on the Grand River in Canada in 1988. Case study in the repatriation of a museum collection, illustrating the ethnohistorical research prerequisite to a decision to return objects to the heirs of the original owners; Legal and ethical issues entering the decision; Iroquois sense of appropriate behavior on such an occasion and the mutual satisfaction of both parties to the transaction.