The Metropolitan Museum of Art has facilitated the transfer of ownership of three centuries-old African artworks, donated by collector Ceil Pulitzer, to a Nigerian cultural organization while keeping them on loan at the museum for 25 years. During that period, the works—a terra-cotta horse head from between the 12th and 15th centuries, a terra-cotta human head from about the 16th century, and an 18th-century brass figure of a queen mother—will be on public display at the museum in New York. The artworks have well-documented ownership histories, with no evidence that they were stolen or illegally brought into the United States. Nevertheless, the Met determined the provenance was not strong enough to formally add the pieces to its own collection. Instead, they were donated to the Friends of Nigeria’s Cultural Heritage, a body established by Nigeria’s National Commission for Museums and Monuments. The agreement reflects a shift by major museums toward more rigorous provenance standards.