Title: The skull collectors
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.
Subjects: Anthropometry, Craniology, Catalogs and collections, Skull, History, Anthropology, Continental Population Groups, History, 19th Century, Anatomy & histology, Social aspects