A group of advocates for Native American heritage dramatically shut down the auction of a human skull just moments before it was about to go under the hammer in North Carolina over the weekend.
On Friday, Crystal Cavalier-Keck, an Indigenous advocate of the Occaneechi band of the Saponi tribe, uploaded a TikTok video about the“There’s nothing that we can do about it in the state of North Carolina,” she said. “The bid is already up to $1,700.”, the skull reached a bid of up to $1,900 online before the auction even began on Saturday.
“I just don’t know where the humanity of this person is that owns this business to be selling bones of people. Like, would you want somebody selling your ancestors’ bones?” she said in a video during an early morning drive to the auction house.the auction house before the event even began. The North Carolina Office of State Archaeology was contacted with concerns days beforehand,reported, and Indigenous tribes and advocacy groups piled into the gallery on the day of the auction.
“The original owner, to my understanding, wants to do what’s right with the remains and give them to the tribe it belongs to,” she said.The skull was not the only controversial item up for sale. Cavalier-Keck said there was artwork of an enslaved man, a Jim Crow-caricature figurine of a Black woman, Indigenous children’s moccasins, and alleged photos of Native American code-talkers.
“The only reason I took it out of the sale yesterday is to satisfy these crazies,” he said, adding that he wasn’t even sure of the skull’s authenticity.
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