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Show ifipTyiiiii m n B8-T- im g grp ''if''T rwt wHfw 'if wf Thursday, Sept. 28, 1989 Tlmes-lndepende- he ! iilf Kwll(li',l Amnesty for collectors supported at Museum Assn, convention by Vicki Barker The idea of amnesty or immunity from prosecution for collectors who relinquish artifacts to museums received general support from panelists at the annual Utah Museum Association meeting last week. Amnesty could be the only means for acquiring prehistoric objects for public enjoyment and scientific research in a timely manner, before artifacts leave the state on the black market or collector's go to their graves with pertinent material - October 2 set for writer workshop Write about the desert, or simply 19-2- find your voice here, where there is time, room and the opportunity to work with instructors whose own writings reflect upon the western landscape. The Desert Writer's Workshop is by Canyonlands Field Institute and the Utah Arts Council. Join them for an evening and three days of writing workshops at Pack Creek Ranch, 13 miles south of Moab October The following workshops will ran throughout the extended weekend: local heritage, group members said Friday. The seven-membantiquities panel, gathered for the second day of the UMA convention, was formed to identify legal and ethical dilemmas museums face when offered contraband artifacts. They were also asked to help define conditions for accepting and displaying collections obtained unscientifically without permit on public lands. The group agreed changes in existing laws are needed that would encourage collectors to give prehistoric treasures to museums for protection, preservation and research and yet discourage illegal and destructive looting for profit and glory. "My er pie-in-th- e sky wish is, somebody would say something that would make it all easy. . .and no one would go out and loot anymore, and artifacts from collectors who went out 40, 50, 100 years ago would bring their collections in," said Pam Miller, an archaeologist and curator for the College of Eastern Utah Museum in Price. The session, involving museum professionals, archaeologists and government representatives, was to be the first in a series the museum association plans to help resolve controversial and significant antiquities issues. Travis Paraschonts, director of the State Division of Indian Affairs, said lawmakers must be involved in the sessions for them to be. effective. "We can sit here and talk and talk and talk, but I don't see any lawmakers here today," he said. "The public can help implement laws, so I appreciate this type of dialogue and wish it continues, but I want more lawmakers involved." Utah Rep. Mike Dmitrich was t participate but was unable to attend. He prepared a legislative review, presented by state archaeologist David Madsen, which noted there are no current or proposed statutes providing for museums to legally receive contraband antiquities or grant immunity to private collectors. The Division of State History is, however, preparing three bills for the 1990 Legislature to deal more stringently with vandalism and destruction of antiquities, make federal and (D-Pric- e) ed state laws on cultural resource management more compatible, and combine the board of State History and Cultural Review Sites committee. "It is clear that we need better integrating of museum policy in the state, as well as coordination of museum functions," Dmitrich concluded. Laws currently allow tax writeoffs for antiquities donations and for museums to purchase collections in some cases, which several in the group said may implicitly encourage pothunting and destruction of 19-2- 2. More of the Duke . . . An original bust of John Wayne dipped in gold paint was donated By Dwain Barker of Moab and is now located in the John Wayne Exhibit at the Hollywood Stuntmen's Hall of Fame. City Council meeting Tuesday was brief by Christine Robbins A brief but informative Lake the home of the Winter City Council meeting took place Tuesday, Sept. 19th. Council reports included the update from the Utah League of Cities and Towns Convention which several from Moab City attended recently. Issues of statewide and local impact were discussed, concerns of the 227 cities in the Utah league is in support of the bid to make Salt Olympics in 1991. Tom Stocks was elected president of the league and an inauguration dinner was held at the Hilton in Salt Lake City Friday the 15th. Jan Barnett was first on the agenda and representing "Active the CEU learning center. 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Miller said many museums exist because of donations, and if objects found in an unscientific manner were to be declared undesirable and refused or removed from display, some museums would be wiped out If museums are unable to negotiate for amnesty in exchange for truthful and good-fait- h archaeological information and materials, the objects will be stripped forever of their link to place and community and the public loses, said Winston Hurst, curator of the Edge of the Cedars State Paik Museum in Blanding. |