The Case of Oceola’s Missing Head
Dr. Morton's Skull Collection
Part of the Morton collection
Albert Einstein’s brain Einstein's brain was preserved after his death
in 1955, but this fact was not revealed until 1978.
While Mott’s collection of skulls was considerable, it paled in comparison to Dr. Samuel Morton’s collection of 1035 skulls of which 13 were Seminoles. After Dr. Morton’s death in 1851, his collection was donated to the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia where it occupied 16 cases on the first gallery, on the south side of the lower room of the Museum where was viewable by visitors. In the mid-1960s the entire collection was loaned to the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology where it remains today.[1]
[1] The Samuel George Morton Cranial Collection." Expedition Magazine 50, no. 3 (November, 2008)