photo by: KU Police

KU police released this image of suspects in the art vandalism at the Spencer Museum of Art.

The University of Kansas police have identified the two suspects sought in the vandalism of a Native American art exhibit at the Spencer Museum of Art.

Deputy Chief James Druen said in an email to the Journal-World that the two men were identified by an anonymous tip. He did not provide the names of the suspects to the Journal-World.

Druen said the case has been sent to the Douglas County District Attorney’s Office for charging considerations. Druen did not say whether the suspects had been arrested. As of midday Thursday, it appears no arrests have been made, according to the Douglas County Jail’s booking log.

As the Journal-World previously reported, KU police said that on Sept. 4 shortly after 11 p.m. two individuals damaged four pieces of the artwork.

The exhibit was KU’s Common Work of Art, titled “Native Hosts,” by artist Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds. “Native Hosts” consists of five aluminum signs in front of the Spencer Museum on Mississippi Street. The signs name Native tribes who historically or currently inhabit the region now called Kansas. On each sign, the colonial name is printed backward while the name of the land’s original occupants is printed forward.

Later, after the vandalism, a fifth panel from the exhibit was stolen, but then recovered. Last week, the museum celebrated the reinstallation of the exhibit in light of both incidents, the Journal-World reported.