ocr: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC BehindtheScenes Maya Treasures Repatriated Amid the usual bustle off the Society's loading dock one morning last April, George Stuart, Chairman of our Committee for Research and. Exploration, knelt among cartons filled with long: missing Maya sculptures and grinned like a kid at Christmas. The 200-year-old stone carvings had arrived: from anonymous art collectors responding to Gicorges negotiations for the return of looted treasures to their homelands. With archacologist Ricardo. Agurcia Fasquelie (below, at left) George unwrapped parts ofal bust and a monkey sculpture from ...
