Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits

A leading anthropologist “explores the fraught project of repatriating Native American sacred objects in this moving and thoughtful work” ( Publishers Weekly ). Who own the objects that connect us to history? And who has the right to decide, particularly when the objects are sacred or, in the case of skeletal remains, human? As senior curator of anthropology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Chip Colwell has navigated questions like these firsthand. In Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spi