Having to
identify for purposes of possible repatriation, the «
cultural affiliation» of all those
artifacts would indeed be an extensive — and expensive — undertaking.
Though intertwined in practice, the pictorial and the presentational represent two different worldviews, one
identified with art as form, as something made, or something its maker arrives at, while the other regards art primarily as a set of
cultural signs, or a strategy that produces an
artifact, something meant to be read.