Met museum returns statues

Thailand's National Museum hosted a welcome-home ceremony Tuesday for two ancient statues that were illegally trafficked from Thailand by a British collector of antiquities and were returned from the collection of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.

- JERRY HARMER

The objects a tall bronze figure called the "Standing Shiva" or the "Golden Boy" and a smaller sculpture called "Kneeling Female" - are thought to be around 1,000 years old.

This most recent repatriation of artwork comes as many museums in the U.S. and Europe reckon with collections that contain objects looted from Asia, Africa and other places during centuries of colonialism or in times of upheaval.