Yale’s Peabody Museum Sends Exhibition to Capitol: More Relics Missing!

Thursday April 24, 2008.

Yale’s notorious Peabody Museum has had a marketing display set up this week in the underground concourse between the Legislativge Office Building and the Capitol.
It consists of posters touting the 11 curatorial divisions and “12 million specimens” located at the Whitney Avenue landmark.
Among the pictures of the carved wooden mask of the tiger spirit, the model of the giant squid, the beetles, the blue poison frog, the fossils and the Navajo blanket, was exactly zero mention of the thousands of objects looted from Machu Picchu, the lost city of the Incas, back nearly 100 years ago by Yale’s Hiram Bingham.
Yale’s currently engaged in a long-running confrontation with Peru, which rightly wants their artifacts back.
Blog-o-rama says Yale should return the Andean heritage to the Peruvians and the museum, in turn, can take Doc Gunther, the 88-year-old former state senator honored by Germany in the state Capitol yesterday, for display behind glass with the museum’s other fossils.