Akan pendant mask: Akan pendant mask owned by Pitt RiversThe objects on display in museums and galleries are usually treated as belonging to that institution (unless the label says 'On loan from...'), but there are many others ways in which they can be regarded as owned. For example, there may be doubt about the circumstances under which they were acquired: perhaps they were looted. They may, for other reasons, be thought of as the cultural property of the society in which they originated, perhaps because of sacred or historical associations. Some anthropologists and art historians regard objects as embodying (by a process of synecdoche) the structures and values of their culture of origin. Then again, especially in the cases of some recently made objects, the copyright of the image may reside with the maker, his or her estate, or an institution, regardless of ownership of the object.Mask similar to one owned by Derain and Vlaminck