Few Answers Materialise in Controversy Around SOAS’ Rare Buddha Statue
Caren Holmes, MA Postcolonial Studies
In March 2018, SOAS accepted a controversial gift from American alumni, Mary and Paul Slawson. The gift, a 13th-century Thai sculpture, housed within the Brunei Gallery, is estimated to be worth more than €60,000 but lacks documentation of its transactional history.
Dr Angela Chiu,
