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Message from the Peabody Director

November 10, 2022

 

On Thursday November 10th the Museum will be releasing information from a collection that is associated with Native American children in U.S. Indian Boarding Schools and other Indigenous relatives. This collection contains hair samples assembled by anthropologist George Edward Woodbury between 1930 – 1933 from across the world and donated to the Museum in 1935. The vast majority were taken from living people, including clippings of hair from approximately 700 Native American children attending U.S. Indian Boarding Schools. Many of these samples have the names of the...

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