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Wednesday, May 23, 2007

 

Museum offered head for shrinking

‘An artist has offered to donate his own head to an Oxford museum – if a collection of shrunken heads has to be returned to South America.

Ted Dewan has written to Oxford University’s Pitt Rivers Museum to offer his own head for shrinking.

Museums have been facing an ethical debate about whether they should keep human remains on display or repatriate them for burial.

But the museum has now turned down Mr Dewan’s offer of a replacement head.’




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