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Masks Going Home: The buyer of three American Indian masks, sold at a Sotheby’s auction Tuesday for $39,050 despite tribal protests that the sale was sacrilegious, told the New York Times after the sale that she plans to return them to the Indians. The newspaper identified the buyer as Elizabeth Sackler, daughter of the late Arthur M. Sackler, who was a collector of antiquities and Asian and Middle Eastern art. “The whole point of coming here was to purchase these ritual objects and return them to the Hopi and Navajo nations to whom they apparently belong,” she said.