Hello, I just had a woman call me who has in her possession a Native American bowl that appears to have an infant's skeleton in a baggie inside it. Her mother excavated it herself in the late 1940s or early 1950s. She believes the two were together at the time her mother found it. The mother has since died, and the caller wanted some advice on what to do with the bowl and bones. She described it to me as an oval shaped, plain brown clay bowl, which is broken. She believes her mother found it in either southern Ohio or Georgia. I asked if she was certain that it was a Native American piece -- she said her mother was an active collector and knew a great deal about the subject. However, she did not leave any information about the bowl. The caller said she believed her mother had taken it to a Native American museum in Macon, GA for evaluation, but she did not donate it. Her brother (the caller's uncle) was also a Native American collector and started his own museum in Michigan. The caller doesn't want the bowl and bones, but she didn't want to just throw them away, which is why she called us. Since our mission is to collect artifacts from Stark County, Ohio and President McKinley, it certainly doesn't fit into our Mission. I am also unfamiliar with laws and regulations about the posession of remains, since it has never been an issue at our museum. So I told her I would post to all of you, and get her some information about who she can contact regarding the bowl and bones. Thank you! Kim Kenney Kimberly A. Kenney, Curator Wm. McKinley Presidential Library & Museum 800 McKinley Monument Dr. NW Canton OH 44708 * 330-455-7043 Visit the Ohio Memory Project at http://www.ohiomemory.org * NEW EXHIBIT: "Made in Canton" will be on view through July 24, 2005 * CONFERENCE: Help us "Celebrate Canton!" at our special conference April 29-30 See our website for more details: http://www.mckinleymuseum.org "Let us ever remember that our interests are in concord, not conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war." -- 25th United States President William McKinley __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).