The Smithsonian museum has apologized for 'unethical' historic collections including brains harvested by a white supremacist former curator in the 1900s - as furious families demand the return of their relatives' remains. Ales Hrdlicka, the institution's first curator of human anthropology, led the museum's drive to collect 255 brains in the early 1900s as he attempted to present evidence of a now-debunked theory about anatomical differences between races. According to the who unveiled the dark story behind the collection, the majority were removed upon death from non-white and indigenous people without the consent of the individuals or their families.
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