Les Etats-Unis tentent d'empêcher une vente aux enchères de masques en France. L'ambassade des Etats-Unis à Paris a annoncé samedi avoir demandé à une société de vente aux enchères de suspendre la vente prévue lundi de masques de la tribu amérindienne Hopi. «L'Ambassade des Etats-Unis a remis une lettre à la société de ventes aux enchères Eve le 7 décembre. Cette lettre (...) demande, en urgence, un délai pour la vente d'objets sacrés des tribus Hopi et Apache San Carlos», indique l'ambassade dans un communiqué.
«L'ambassade a fait cette demande au nom des deux tribus, afin qu'elles puissent avoir la possibilité d'identifier les objets, de vérifier leur provenance et de déterminer si elles pourraient revendiquer ces objets selon les termes de la Convention de l'Unesco de 1970 sur l'exportation et le transfert de propriété de biens culturels, ou de toute autre juridiction», a précisé l'ambassade. Une tribu qui vit aux Etats-Unis Avec AFP Plus d'informations sur ce sujet en vidéo. Fury as new auction of Hopi sacred objects announced in Paris. Lawyer Pierre Servan-Schreiber met two katsina priests when a katsina was returned to the Hopi in July 2013. © Survival A French auction house has announced that it is putting up for sale a large number of katsinam – objects sacred to the Hopi tribe of Arizona – just months after a similar auction caused an international furore.
Survival International, the movement to support tribal peoples, is going to court to try to stop the auction. Alain Leroy of auctioneers EVE plans to auction 25 katsinam on 9 and 11 December, despite pleas from the Hopi’s religious authorities to cancel the sale. The auctioneers have ignored requests to suspend the sale. Hopi student Bo Lomahquahu and Director of Survival International France protested outside the auction of 70 katsinam in April 2013. Lawyer Pierre Servan-Schreiber of the firm Skadden, Arps, acting for Survival International and the Hopi, will go before a judge in Paris on Tuesday in an attempt to have the sale blocked. Share this news story. Hopi+Tribe+France+Auction+4.4.2013.pdf. Survival goes to court to stop Hopi sacred objects auction.
Hopi elder James Kootshongsie, who died in 1996. The Hopi are 'vehemently opposed' to the sale of the tribe's sacred objects in a Paris auction house. © Jonathan Mazower / Survival Lawyers acting for Survival International have today filed legal papers in an attempt to stop the sale of sacred objects of the Hopi tribe in a Paris auction house this Friday. The Hopi tribe of Arizona had previously written to the auction house Neret-Minet Tessier & Sarrou, asking them to cancel the sale on the grounds that the objects were the cultural property of the tribe, and that their public display and sale caused them grave offence.
However, the auction house appears intent on proceeding with the sale. The Hopi tribe has said it is ‘vehemently opposed’ to the auction, and has requested that the objects are returned to them immediately. ‘The Hopi Tribe must protect the cultural beliefs that we have used for centuries and still continue to use today’, said Hopi Tribal Chairman LeRoy N. Note to Editors: Paris judge rejects attempt to halt auction of Hopi sacred objects. Hopi elder James Kootshongsie, who died in 1996. The Hopi are 'vehemently opposed' to the sale of the tribe's sacred objects in a Paris auction house. © Jonathan Mazower / Survival A Paris judge today threw out a bid by Survival International to block a controversial auction of sacred objects of Arizona’s Hopi tribe. The judge ruled that ‘in spite of their sacredness to the Hopi these masks are not a representation of any creature, alive or dead.’ The auction house Neret-Minet Tessier & Sarrou had turned down repeated requests by the tribe to postpone the sale, which will now take place in Paris today.
The Hopi tribe is ‘vehemently opposed’ to the auction of the Katsinam (“friends”), which are of spiritual significance to the tribe, and had requested that the objects be returned to them immediately. Actor Robert Redford earlier pleaded for the auction to be scrapped. Note to Editors: The Hopi tribe number around 18,000, living in 12 villages in northeastern Arizona. Share this news story. Sacred object handed back to Hopi tribe after 'shameful' Paris auction. The katsina was handed over to Hopi chairman and religious leaders by lawyer Pierre Servan-Schreiber and Survival International's Jean Patrick Razon (no photography was allowed during the handover itself). © Survival In a historic handover ceremony, an object sacred to the Hopi people has been returned to Hopi after dozens of katsinam (‘friends’) were sold at a Paris auction house in April 2013 despite repeated requests and litigation.
Representatives of tribal rights organization Survival International and lawyer Pierre Servan-Schreiber returned the katsina to Hopi. The katsinam are of cultural and religious significance to the Hopi, who were vehemently opposed to the auction and asked the Paris auction house Neret-Minet Tessier & Sarrou to cancel the sale on the grounds that the objects are considered sacred to Hopi. Mr. After the katsina handover, Hopi and the delegation exchanged gifts. M. Hollywood actor Robert Redford had also pleaded for the auction to be halted. Note to editors: Le retour d’un Katsina. En avril dernier, alertée par l’anthropologue Patrick Perez, Survival International France saisissait l’Alliance des avocats pour les droits de l’homme pour tenter d’empêcher la vente, à l’hôtel Drouot, à Paris, de 70 objets sacrés des Indiens d’Amérique du nord, des Katsinam hopi pour la plupart. Me Pierre Servan-Schreiber accepta alors de plaider cette cause pro bono. Les Katsinam que les Hopi d’Arizona appellent ‘amis’sont les esprits des ancêtres, des animaux terrestres et du monde naturel, mais aussi d’êtres mythologiques, de forces naturelles et de valeurs morales et sociales.
Ils composent une sorte d’inventaire du monde visible et invisible et font partie d’un système de croyances qui veut que la stabilité du monde soit liée à la célébration de ces êtres, lesquels ne peuvent être ni commercialisés ni-même montrés à des non-initiés. Ils apparaissent lors des danses sacrées, les ‘Home Dance’ qui maintiennent l’équilibre entre les Hopi et les esprits. . © Jean-Patrick Razon/Survival.