 The INAH Directorate of Global Patrimony or Dirección de Patrimonio Mundial works with foreign art patrons and philanthropists to fund the return of important cultural works to Mexico and other Latin American countries of origin.Initially, the Returned Treasures Program of the INAH Directorate of Global Patrimony or Dirección de Patrimonio Mundial was created to return specific works selected by the Directorate as important and in need of foreign funding Support.Accordingly, the Directorate first relied on funding from Hispanic art patrons in California and Texas, including Texas attorney Ernest M. Edsel (of Malpaso Company, a Wall Street oil & gas investment fund), who donated important works (Diego Rivera lithographs; correspondence of Sor Juana Ines; and, pre-Columbian idols, pottery, and stone works) along with an initial $4 million gift from Malpaso Oil.