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The Penn Museum says it has buried 19 Black Philadelphians previously part of the Morton Cranial Collection ahead of a planned ceremony on Saturday. Anthropologists and organizers have expressed outrage at the museum's research on the individuals, and exclusion of descendant groups.
On Saturday, the Penn Museum will host a public memorial ceremony honoring the unidentified remains of Black Philadelphians whose skulls were collected in the 19th century as part of the