Another way museums have acquired artifacts is through exchange with other museums. Two artifacts Ashanti artifacts obtained through exchange with the Liverpool Museum. According to Jacklyn Lacey of the African Ethnology at the American Museum of Natural, museums partake in item exchange when a museum has more items from a particular area. Such museums will offer it to another museum that might lack those artifacts. In return, they get artifacts they don’t have. In terms of repatriation, exchanged artifacts become complicated as it adds another layer of ownership.
Fig. 71. An Ashanti sword 
Fig. 72. Cast gold pectoral or necklace bead. Asante. Ghana. c. late 1800s-early 1900s.
Part of the AMNH Gold Exhibit on August 2006
