Penn Museum researchers are working to identify the remains in preparation for their proposed burial.
By Layla A. Jones, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Penn Museum came to possess the Morton Cranial Collection in 1966. The institution publicly initiated its ongoing efforts to repatriate the remains in 2021, after the social movement against racist harm became more mainstream across the nation and on campus in the summer of 2020. Initially 13 skulls of Black Philadelphians were identified. But in a report released Tuesday, the museum said there are 20.
“In the interest of continued transparency regarding the 20 Black Philadelphians that are proposed for burial, we want to present all available data to the public,” said Christopher Woods, the museum’s director and the first Black person to lead the institution, one of the nation’s premier anthropology museums. “Although the 19th-century archives were publicly available for decades, the reports present the information in a more accessible way.”Philadelphia activist Abdul-Aliy A.
“Penn didn’t do this because they had some moral understanding of what was wrong with possessing the remains of our ancestors,” Muhammad said. “They did this in response to the objections to their petition.”
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