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Searching for Maura

出版	Washington Post, 2023
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=DqYq0AEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋"In 1904, more than 1,200 Filipinos traveled from their home country to the United States to be put on display in staged villages at the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. The Philippine Exposition quickly became one of the most popular exhibits, bu the Filipinos who were there rarely had a chance to tell their own stories. One of those people was an Igorot woman named Maura. Her story came to light as The Washington Post investigated the extensive collection of human remains amassed in the early 20th century at the Smithsonian Intitution's U.S. National Museum. In 1904, the museum's curator of the physical anthropology division, Ales Hrdlicka, was building what he called a 'racial brain collection.' Many of the brains to be collected were from Black people who died in the United States and Indigenous people worldwide. Hrdlicka knew that some of the Filipino people on display at the World's Fair would probably die of natural causes or illness. When they did, Hrdlicka seized on the deaths as opportunities to add to his collection. This is the story of Maura, how a Filipino American activist first learned of her, and the ongoing efforts to identify and repatriate 255 brains and tens of thousands of other human remains stored by the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History"--page 5.