I can offer some observations based upon what was done at the Museum of Anthropology, University of Missouri-Columbia between 1973 and 1984 when I was Museum Director/Curator. First there was an explicit connection between the Museum shop and the exhibits but it wasn't with archaeology. The shop did not, as a matter of policy, sell either originals or replicas of archaeological objects. The connection was with ethnography. Two, the intention was to only sell original items produced by living peoples or publications either of the Museum or closely connected with the Museum exhibits. Most items actually sold came from Africa, Latin America, Asia and Europe. They were either duplicates acquired in ongoing fieldwork that were not needed for the collections or ethnographic objects acquired from wholesalers in New York. Three, the Museum Shop was considered as part of the temporary exhibit area of the Museum with the difference being that the public could buy the exhibits. Four, the money obtained from sales in the Museum Shop was used to fund additional acquisitions of modern ethnographic artifacts for the museum collections. As postscript I should add that I recently visited the Anthropology Museum and note that this is not the policy in operation today. My very quick impression (I was only there for a few minutes) is that today they only sell the usual plastic replicas/ mass produced publications found in many Museum shops that have some connection with Anthropology but no necessary connection with the exhibits. Lawrence H. Feldman [log in to unmask]