Scottish Earl’s Native American artefacts sold at Newyork Auction
Published May 12th, 2006
UK Auction Info
A SCOTTISH laird has raised £2.4 million by selling a collection of rare Native American artefacts in an auction that was compared to selling gold teeth from victims of the Holocaust.
For nearly 150 years the contents of a trunk brought back by the 9th Earl of Southesk from his trek across the Rocky Mountains — where he described some of the people he met as “bloated, disgusting savages” — lay gathering dust in the attic of Kinnaird Castle, his ancestral home in Angus.
