January 9, 2005

Antique shrunken head going on the auction block in Troy

Professor Tom Killian, chair of Wayne State University's department of Anthropology comments about a local antique gallery's plans to auction a human skull. The 100-year-old shrunken head is going on the auction block this month in Oakland County and is expected to draw bids from $4,000-$6,000. \"For me, the sale of human remains is definitely offensive and professionally unethical,\" Killian says. \"It sounds pretty backward and kind of ignorant. Commerce in human remains should be condemned as ignorant and perverted.\"

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