A Native American adolescent’s skull at the Penn Museum moves closer home
The Museum has established the deceased's tribal heritage and is proceeding with the steps toward repatriating the remains.
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Penn Museum to return 19th century skull of Indigenous child to tribe leaders in Maine
The remains are part of the controversial Morton Collection, which was placed in storage in 2020 to reexamine unethical ...
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Hundreds of 19th-century skulls collected in the name of medical science tell a story of who mattered and who didn't
"Legend has it," she said, "John James Audubon really collected the skulls Morton claimed as his own ... the difference in the form of the skull as seen in the five great races of men ...