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The Peabody Museum cares for a large and historic collection of anthropological materials from across the globe, including more than 1.2 million individual cultural items, 500,000 photographic images, and associated archival records.

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Message from Jane Pickering, William & Muriel Seabury Howells Director of the Peabody Museum

November 6, 2023


It has been one year since my staff and I wrote to Tribal Nations with the difficult news of a collection of hair clippings taken from Indigenous people around the world. The collection was amassed by anthropologist George Edward Woodbury in the early 1930s and donated to the Museum in 1935. Particularly distressing is that approximately 700 clippings came from named children and adults then at U.S. Indian boarding schools. More details of the collection, including historical documentation, can be found on our ...

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