Daily News | Penn, Temple, Mütter among U.S. institutions still holding the remains of Native Americans
the return of Indigenous human remains to descendants and tribal nations, some 110,000 of those remains continue to be held by major American institutions — including the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, the Mütter Museum, and others in the Philadelphia region.
Also appearing on the list are Temple University’s department of anthropology , the Mütter Museum , and the Wagner Free Institute of Science . “Upon my arrival last year, the museum committed to reengaging this process, and so we have conducted additional outreach to known tribes,” Quinn said Thursday. “To date, we have successfully repatriated two sets of remains, and we have received three additional requests as a result of our outreach.
“We want to make clear that 100% of the ancestors at Temple University are available for repatriation, and we are actively working to accomplish this,” the statement said.Penn Museum has identified 20 skulls of Black Philadelphians from its collection of 1,300 remains “It really is up until very recently that these remains were treated with even close to the dignity that they deserve,” Willoughby said. “In my opinion, they shouldn’t be in those museums, but it is hard to undo 150 years or so of haphazard collecting. These are really messy histories to untangle, but they need to be.”
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