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All Modern North American Collections

George Huntington Collection

• Institution: Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History
• Location: Washington, DC, USA
• Description: Comprised of over 3600 individuals with dates of death from 1892 to 1920. Age, sex, nationality, and cause of death are known. All individuals are either European immigrants or New York City residents. Many skeletons are incomplete due to their origin as dissection cadavers.
• Reference: National Museum of Natural History

Hamann-Todd Osteological Collection

• Institution: Department of Physical Anthropology, Cleveland Museum of Natural History
• Location: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
• Description: Contains over 3000 skeletons. Documentation is unknown.
• Reference: Cleveland Museum of Natural History

Hamilton County Forensic Center Donated Collection

• Institution: Hamilton County Forensic Center
• Location: Chattanooga, TN
• Description: Mainly composed of donated completed skeletons along with some forensic cases. As of 2005 the collection contained 67 identified individuals.
• Reference: Honors Thesis

J.C.B. Grant Collection

• Institution: Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto
• Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Description: Consists of 202 individuals who died and were received by the university between 1928 and the early 1950s. Most of the individuals are male and aged 40 years or older. Many were transients, migrant workers, or recent immigrants at time of death. All but one are of European ancestry. Demographic information consists of sex, age at death, and cause of death.
• Reference: American Journal of Physical Anthropology article

Maxwell Museum Documented Skeletal Collection

• Institution: Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University of New Mexico
• Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
• Description: Contains 257 individuals as of February 2008, although only 207 of those individuals are positively identified. All but one of the individuals were residents of New Mexico. Ages at death range from fetal to over 80 years. The amount of documentation varies depending on the source of the remains, but typically includes age, sex, and ancestry.
• Reference: Maxwell Museum and American Journal of Physical Anthropology article

Physical Anthropology Collection Archaeology Series

• Institution: Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History
• Location: Washington, DC, USA
• Description: Contains numerous skeletal remains recovered from archaeological excavations. The majority (45%) originates from North America while the remainder consists of remains from South America (20%), Asia (15%), Africa (10%), and Europe (5%).
• Reference: National Museum of Natural History

Robert J. Terry Anatomical Skeletal Collection

• Institution: Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History
• Location: Washington, DC, USA
• Description: This collection consists of 1728 individuals (461 white males, 546 black males, 323 white females, 392 black females, 5 Asian males, and 1 individual of unknown origin) with dates of birth ranging from 1822 to 1943 and ages at death ranging from 16 to 102 years. Demographic information includes age, sex, ancestry, cause of death, and pathological conditions. Anthropometric measurements, cadaver photographs, dental charts, death masks, and hair samples are available for some individuals.
• Reference: National Museum of Natural History

Stanford Collection

• Institution: Department of Anthropology, University of Iowa
• Location: Iowa City, Iowa, USA
• Description: This collection is composed of around 1100 individuals that originally served as cadavers for anatomy classes at Stanford University Medical School. Birth dates range from the mid to late 1800s.
• Reference: NSF award abstract

W. Montague Cobb Human Skeletal Collection

• Institution: Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Howard University
• Location: Washington, DC, USA
• Description: Consists of approximately 700 individuals of mainly African ancestry living from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century.
• Reference: Howard University

William F. McCormick Collection

• Institution: Department of Anthropology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
• Location: Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
• Description: Composed of over 900 specimens from known individuals gathered from East Tennessee Medical Examiner autopsies. The majority of the specimens are either hyoids, clavicles, or portions of crania with gunshot wounds.
• Reference: UTK Forensic Anthropology Center

William M. Bass Donated Skeletal Collection

• Institution: Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
• Location: Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
• Description: Contains around 900 adult individuals along with some infant and fetal remains and cremains. Demographic data is available for most individuals and includes age, sex, ancestry, cause of death, and body mass.
• Reference: UTK Forensic Anthropology Center

William M. Bass Forensic Skeletal Collection

• Institution: Department of Anthropology, The University of Tennessee
• Location: Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
• Description: Consists of skeletal remains from over 100 forensic cases from the 1970s to the present. Contains examples of a variety of types of trauma.
• Reference: UTK Forensic Anthropology Center