HUMORED HUMAN SKULLS
GRIM FIND IN STORE PACIFIC ISLAND RELIC (Reed. May 9, 9 a.m.) SYDNEY, May 8. A grim discovery was made at a Grafton bond store in Kent street, city, on Saturday when a zinc-lined case containing 100 human skulls was uncovered by the manager and employees during a clean-up of the store.
The case had lain in the store for over 30 years awaiting a claimant, but no record of its ownership or the method of its arrival is traceable. All the skulls, which are believed to be those of Pacific Islanders, were in a good state of preservation, especially the teeth, which, in all cases, are nearly perfect.
Dr. J. Frederick Watson, of Canberra, subsequently claimed the ownership of the skulls. He says that he believes they ai - e New Guinea and Polynesian skulls intended for him when he was studying medicine at the university and collecting skulls. His father and uncle owned the store in which they were found.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19625, 9 May 1938, Page 5
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