Statue of Liberty on the Open Market: The Ownership of Cultural Property We were discussing the ability of an oversized monkey to abduct a toddler when the Englishman approached us alongside the Tivanka image house in ancient Polonnaruva. Tugging the hem of his collared bowling shirt over the taut waistband of his cargo safari shorts, he pointed to the tops of the trees with a crooked arm. “What do you reckon, bear monkeys?” Born and raised in the eastern Midwest, I knew nothing more about monkeys than your average zoo-going American, but that their opposable thumbs and toes had the tendency to make me irrationally nervous. I smiled and shrugged politely, as did my two compatriots. “They look gray to me,” the Englishman continued, unabated by our silence. “Say, what was the name of those Indians,
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