"Since I heard that my relatives' bodies were taken and cooked I am sick from
 SO"OW    and I will not recover from the shock for a long time. I wept for days. "
                                                                 Old Katje, widow of a San man
                                                          dug up by Poch's assistant Mehnarto,
                                                                  at Kuie Pan, 26 January 1910
   SThJEIJETO)f!S JI}!THE i.C~TUTIFDB(O)AJPJD)
   South African museums and the trade in
                   human remains 1907-1917
                  Martin Legassick & Ciraj Rassool
  .with responses and notes by Alan G. Morris, David Morris and Leon Jacobson,
   Graham Avery, Sven Ouzman, & Marilyn Truscott, and a reply by the authors.
                               Foreword by Patricia Davidson.
Collections of human remains in museums are tangible reminders of the attitudes and
theories that were current in the early decades of the twentieth century. This volume
challenges museums to acknowledge the unscrupulous methods used in building up such
collections. It raises issues relevant to historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, museum
curators and all those interested in the transformation of museum practice in Southem
Africa.
        Published by the South African Museum, PO Box 61, Cape Town 8000,
                   & McGregor Museum, PO Box 316, Kimberley 8300
 First published 2000. 105 pp.                                         ISBN 0-86813-177-6
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