Spotting Fake Native American Art, Part 2

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Roy Walters Junior. I am a Native American artist. I do sculpture and painting and I am here on behalf of Expert Village. It's a real big problem because it hurts a lot of artists to have these things that are, these people out there who are misrepresented. There's, I see, not only with the mass productions of different, there's like people who come to these Indian art markets, they'll buy a piece of work, and then they'll take it to another country and then they'll replicate it and then they'll mass produce it. And it hurts. And it hurts a lot of the, especially jewelry. Jewelry is probably the one that people have a lot of problems with. So, you really have to be careful about jewelry. There's baskets, there's weavings that are mass produced in different other countries. Even different types of, it's very important that people are aware of it because it's good to educate yourself in terms of how to recognize it and we can go to a link now, you can go to my website and there's a link on there to where you can kind of educate yourself and know what to look for. There's different types of websites out there that have these ways to recognize how, what you should be careful of, what you should buy."