| Content Warning | A review of the Archive catalogue and documents within the Archive relating to Anthropology identified that some contain information that may be offensive or distressing. This includes racist language, and descriptions of historical collecting and research methods. The Museum does not condone unacceptable language and practices of the past, but has not redacted these records to maintain authenticity and facilitate discovery of records for research, including study of the history of science and museums |
| Description | Correspondence, including but not limited too;
T Jacobs, Institute of Human Biology, Utrecht, relating to bone samples from Mesolithic sites sent to British Museum (Natural History) for dating
G de G Sieveking; Ken Kennedy & Kenneth P Oakley relating to bone samples from Gua Cha, including list of samples and results
T Harrison, Sarawak Museum, relating to materials sent from Niah and secondary burial, a deformed ‘melanau’ skull, details of a 'dig' at Gan Kira, moon cave, Orang material, limestone hand-axe, and a collection of teeth of local native population
Memo between Don Brothwell and Kenneth P Oakley relating to a specimen from Huizinga, which is from a skeleton found by Dr Verhoeven in the Liang Toge, the Flores Cave
Report ‘Note on Human Skeletal Material from Loan, Implementiferous, Layer at Western End of Flores, Indonesia’ by D Brothwell.
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