21.   The law requires federally funded museums, universities, and government agencies to return all sacred objects, cultural patrimony, and human remains to their rightful heirs.

22.   Traditionally, Hopi men carve kachinas and give them to women as representations of Kastina, the spirit of procreation, thus excluding women from carving the sacred objects.

23.   Chalices and other sacred objects were melted and destroyed, and the crucifix adorning the front entrance was broken into dozens of pieces.

24.   Last year a brawl broke out in a cathedral, with the faithful on both sides overturning the communion table and hurling sacred objects.

25.   Sacred objects from the altar, including gold lanterns, were in cardboard boxes in front of the destroyed temple.

26.   The Clackamas tribe adopted it as a sacred object, and the rain water that collected in its deep craters was prized for its holiness.

27.   To qualify as a sacred object it must be a specific ceremonial object needed for present day American Indians to practice their traditional religions.

28.   With his Buddhist temple shattered and his sacred objects buried in rubble, Shukei Fujimoto believes he cannot give earthquake victims the respect they are due.

29.   He said protective measures had been put in place in the region to prevent the removal of the most sacred objects.