The skull collectors
Subtitle: race, science, and America's unburied dead
By: Ann Fabian.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press; University Of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780226233482
Subjects: Morton, Samuel George, -- 1799-1851; Craniology -- Social aspects -- United States -- 19th century; Anthropometry -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Skull -- Catalogs and collections -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Description: When Philadelphian Samuel George Morton died in 1851, no one cut off his head, boiled away its flesh and added his grinning skull to a collection of crania. It would have been strange, but perhaps fitting, had Mortona's skull wound up in a collector's cabinet, for Morton himself had collected hundreds over the course of a long career.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "The promise of a fine skull"; title: A native among the headhunters; title: Crania Americana; title: "News from the Feegees"; title: The unburied dead.