Harvard museum returning Native hair samples
The Peabody Museum, a Harvard institution that focuses on studying the characteristics of various people, said Thursday it will return Indigenous h...
The Peabody Museum, a Harvard institution that focuses on studying the characteristics of various people, said Thursday it will return Indigenous hair samples and offered an apology. The Peabody Museum in June returned a pipe tomahawk once owned by a chief of the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska. It was a move the museum said was part of its increased efforts to return tribal artifacts to their original people. 'The Peabody Museum apologizes to Indigenous families and tribal nations for our complicity in the objectification of Native peoples and for our more than 80-year possession of hair taken from their relatives,' museum director Jane Pickering said in a statement Thursday.