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German Museum Display Of Native American Scalps Outrages Tribes (pictures and video)
Monday, March 24, 2014 14:21
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Members of Native American tribes are involved in a dispute with a German Wild West museum over human scalps in its exhibition.
The Karl May Museum in Radebeul, outside Dresden, has been criticised for displaying the scalps, some of which are decorated with braided hair and beads.
Cecil Pavlat, cultural repatriation specialist of the Ojibwe Nation – to which one of the scalps is said to belong – wrote to the museum this month to complain about the “insensitive display” of the “ancestral remains” and to request their return, Deutsche Welle reported.
“It’s a part of that human being,” he told the publication. MOREHERE
Most of the time this site looks like the Natl Enquirer but this is very poor judgement. That was a long time ago, and in this day and age, inappropriate to me.
Monday 24 March 2014