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Rally demands the repatriation of the Penn Museum’s Morton skull collection Stephan Salisbury, The Philadelphia Inquirer © TOM GRALISH/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS Signs at the rally across from the Penn Museum on Thursday. Their collection of skulls was amassed by Samuel George Morton, a 19th-century physician and white supremacist.
A rally Thursday organized by Police Free Penn demanded that the Penn Museum repatriate skulls held by the Morton skull collection.
The collection was put together by Samuel George Morton, a 19th-century physician and white supremacist. A report compiled earlier this year for a coalition seeking repatriation of the bones concluded that the remains of about a dozen Black Philadelphians, including some who had formerly been enslaved, are held in the 1,000-skull collection. Dozens more were from enslaved people in Cuba, and an unknown number were obtained via grave robbing.