US returns sculptures, artifacts to Peru in ceremony at LA consulate
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Several antiquities were returned to Peru during a ceremony at a California consulate following recent pressures to have U.S. institutions return cultural pieces to its home countries.
The items returned to the Peruvian consul general included two khipus, intricately knotted and colored sets of cords that experts believe were used by the Incas to count and keep records.
The repatriated khipus were turned over to federal investigators two years ago by a private art gallery. They may have been donated to the gallery or abandoned there sometime between 2005 and 2012, authorities said.
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