Now that the topic has arisen, I must ask what do you do with a skeleton
trouvee?  While cleaning my wife's uncle's apartment, a physician for over
50 years from the late 1920s (the uncle, not my wife), we discovered the
veritable Skeleton in the Closet -- well, parts of one anyway (skeleton,
not closet).  Laboring under the assumption that these dry bones are not
the remains of a delinquent patient, but rather the still extant fragments
of some medical school model (a graduation present?), we must figure out
how to dispose of our find.  In this case the head bone ain't connected to
nuttin' and the leg bone ain't connected to nuttin' and there ain't that
many bones at all.  May I assume that there is no clause in NAGPRA that
governs unattributed bodily residue? Can these fragments be donated to a
school? Might they make the perfect ghoulish decoration for the local
haunted hacienda?  Is this a case for the board of health?  Or does one
toss them out with the dust to dust?

Waiting for a serious answer to a serious question,

this is Janosh, a/k/a


Robert A. Baron
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