Penn Museum will repatriate human skulls once used to support white supremacist theories

The Penn Museum will repatriate or rebury a collection of 1,300 human skulls that were once used to advance white supremacist race science, led by 19th century natural scientist Samuel G. Morton. The collection had been housed at the Philadelphia museum since 1966, when Penn took it from the Drexel Academy of Natural Sciences. Some of the remains came from enslaved individuals, researchers found.



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