Penn Museum Apologizes For Unethical Possession Of Human Remains ktep.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ktep.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Ivy League colleges urged to apologise for using bones of Black children in teaching Ed Pilkington
Two Ivy League institutions, the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton, are facing mounting demands to apologise and make restitution for their handling over decades of the bones of African American children killed by Philadelphia police in 1985.
As calls pour in for action to be taken over the use of the children’s remains as props in an online Princeton anthropology course – without permission from parents of the dead children – there is also rising concern about the whereabouts of the bones.
Fragments belonging to one or possibly two Black children have been held by the universities for 36 years, but now appear to have gone missing.
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PHILADELPHIA â Following more than a year of growing controversy and a demonstration last week, the Penn Museum apologized Monday for the âunethical possession of human remainsâ in its Morton skull collection and vowed repatriation and reburial of the remains of more than a dozen anonymous Black Philadelphians.
The remains will be returned to congregations or communities in Philadelphia for interment in a historically Black cemetery, as yet undetermined, according to Penn officials.
In addition, the museum said it will seek agreements with communities abroad enabling the return of dozens of skulls of enslaved individuals from Cuba that are also contained in the 1,000-skull collection, amassed by 19th-century doctor and white supremacist Samuel George Morton.
Penn Museum will repatriate Morton Collection in effort to repair racist and colonial practices thedp.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thedp.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.