Skull Collectors

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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