The magical power of African art, illustrated in the nkisi nkonde figure and referenced by Tania Bruguera’s Displacement and Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, is unfamiliar to Westerners. In addition, our knowledge of these figures and the cultures that produced them has been gained at great loss to those cultures. As Western culture has encountered non-Western cultures, particularly from the nineteenth century forward, local customs and tradition suffered and art was pilfered. Research the relationship between museums and non-Western collections. FOCUS on recent attempts to return artifacts to the people whose ancestors produced them.