Caribbean materials, Samuel George Morton Papers

Culture:
Kalinago includes: Carib, Island, Kalhíphona
Language: English
Date: April 1837
Contributor: Holbrook, John Edwards, 1794-1871
Subject: Grave robbing | Human remains | Phrenology | Skulls | Anthropometry
Type: Text
Genre: Correspondence
Extent: 1 page
Description: Letter discussing grave robbing of Indigenous ancestors' remains. Enclosed in letter to Charles Pickering. Head of fossil skeleton in Guadeloupe not Carib, but like Peruvian heads.
Collection: Samuel George Morton Papers Mss.B.M843