When I started my research on the Samuel George Morton Cranial Collection, a librarian leaned over my laptop one day to share some lore. “Legend has it,” she said, “John James Audubon really collected the skulls Morton claimed as his own.” Her voice was lowered so as not to disturb the other scholars in the hushed archive. A lecture he …
Penn Museum Apologizes For 'Unethical Possession Of Human Remains' Enlarge this image toggle caption R. Perez/Penn Museum R. Perez/Penn Museum Dozens of human skulls of Black people — some hundreds of years old — will be returned to their communities of origin for reburial, according to a commitment by the University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Archeology and Anthropology. "The Penn …
