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Captured Natives used as "living specimens."

1896

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Arctic explorer Robert E. Peary brings “living specimens” of Indigenous people from Alaska and Greenland to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City for "scientific study" and measurements by anthropologists. After dying of illness, the people's skeletons are kept in the museum for study.