Federal prosecutors have charged four southeast Alaska businesses with selling bone carvings that prosecutors say were misrepresented as carved by Alaska Natives.
A shop employee also was charged.
U.S. Attorney Karen Loeffler in an announcement says the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service investigated after summer tourists complained about bone carvings they bought.
Charges of “misrepresentation of Indian produced goods” were filed against shops in Juneau, Ketchikan and Skagway.
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