Smithsonian returns woman’s brain to family 90 years after it was taken

In 1933, a doctor took the brain of an 18-year-old Sami woman named Mary Sara for the Smithsonian Institution’s “racial brain collection.” In 2023, following a Post investigation, Sara’s family petitioned the museum to return her brain. They held a service to bury it near the rest of her remains in Seattle. Read more: https://wapo.st/3KENxyL. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK

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On September 8, 2023 By Julianne Lane

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