An Albuquerque police officer searching a former drug lab came across an unexpected find.
While searching a condemned apartment abandoned two years ago after it was discovered to be a methamphetamine lab, the cop stumbled upon a portfolio with several prints in it. The well-preserved box containing 72 prints was recovered from the site and taken to a curator, who identified the art as the work of late Kiowa artist Al Momaday, who died in 1981. Turns out they’re worth about $33,000.
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Museum representatives told KOB that they reached out to Momaday’s son, but that the prints aren’t his.
