New York City--North America (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alanna Warner-Smith.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper Bodies: Excavating Archival Tissues and Traces", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Huntington Anatomical Collection (1893-1921) is comprised of immigrants and U.S.-born persons who died in New York City. Like many anatomical collections, the common narrative is that decedents were dissected and curated because they lacked next-of-kin to bury them, a social impoverishment used to justify their...