{"product_id":"the-smithsonian-coverup","title":"The Smithsonian Coverup","description":"\u003cp class=\"my-2 [\u0026amp;+p]:mt-4 [\u0026amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [\u0026amp;_strong:has(+br)]:pb-2\"\u003eEighteen thousand skeletons entered the building. The accounting of what left is still being requested.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 class=\"my-2 [\u0026amp;+p]:mt-4 [\u0026amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [\u0026amp;_strong:has(+br)]:pb-2\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhy this tee\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFit:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eWears like a press credential tee from a job that got reassigned — slim through the torso, mid-weight, holds its shape like something that was meant to be kept.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"my-2 [\u0026amp;+p]:mt-4 [\u0026amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [\u0026amp;_strong:has(+br)]:pb-2\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePrint:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eChest-sized newspaper front-page layout in period broadsheet typography, the kind of mark that reads as archive before it reads as design.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"my-2 [\u0026amp;+p]:mt-4 [\u0026amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [\u0026amp;_strong:has(+br)]:pb-2\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVibe:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eFor FOIA regulars who've read the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act filings, journalists who've pulled institutional collection records and compared them to field reports, and anyone who tracks the distance between what an institution says it holds and what it was documented receiving.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 class=\"my-2 [\u0026amp;+p]:mt-4 [\u0026amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [\u0026amp;_strong:has(+br)]:pb-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe lore\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"my-2 [\u0026amp;+p]:mt-4 [\u0026amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [\u0026amp;_strong:has(+br)]:pb-2\"\u003eBetween 1881 and 1894, the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of Ethnology conducted a systematic excavation of burial mounds across the eastern United States under the direction of ethnologist Cyrus Thomas. The mandate was scientific: determine who built the mounds. The institutional outcome was a 742-page report that settled the question for the scholarly consensus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"my-2 [\u0026amp;+p]:mt-4 [\u0026amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [\u0026amp;_strong:has(+br)]:pb-2\"\u003eWhat the exercise also produced was a collection. The Bureau encouraged field teams and independent excavators to ship skeletal remains to Washington for study. By the time the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act passed in 1990, the Smithsonian held more than 18,000 individual sets of human remains, the majority recovered from mounds during the decades of systematic collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"my-2 [\u0026amp;+p]:mt-4 [\u0026amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [\u0026amp;_strong:has(+br)]:pb-2\"\u003eNineteenth-century newspaper accounts — in named papers, with named journalists and named institutional sources — recorded that skeletal remains of unusual dimensions were among those shipped to Washington. Those accounts exist in the archive. The collection records for those specific remains are absent or incomplete.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"my-2 [\u0026amp;+p]:mt-4 [\u0026amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [\u0026amp;_strong:has(+br)]:pb-2\"\u003eIn 2023, Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III acknowledged the institution's history of acquiring human remains — thousands of individuals, many without consent, collected under Hrdlička's tenure from 1903 to 1941.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"my-2 [\u0026amp;+p]:mt-4 [\u0026amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [\u0026amp;_strong:has(+br)]:pb-2\"\u003eThe unusual finds are a subset of that larger accounting problem. The record of what entered the building and the record of what was documented afterward do not align.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 class=\"my-2 [\u0026amp;+p]:mt-4 [\u0026amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [\u0026amp;_strong:has(+br)]:pb-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePrimary source\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"my-2 [\u0026amp;+p]:mt-4 [\u0026amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [\u0026amp;_strong:has(+br)]:pb-2\"\u003eThe Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of Ethnology conducted its mound excavations across 1881–1894, and the institutional scope of the human remains collection is documented in the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"reset interactable cursor-pointer decoration-1 underline-offset-1 text-super hover:underline\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/annualreportofbu1218901891smit\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text-box-trim-both\"\u003e12th Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1890–91\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, preserved at the Internet Archive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 class=\"my-2 [\u0026amp;+p]:mt-4 [\u0026amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [\u0026amp;_strong:has(+br)]:pb-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSizing \u0026amp; styling\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"my-2 [\u0026amp;+p]:mt-4 [\u0026amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [\u0026amp;_strong:has(+br)]:pb-2\"\u003eSlim fit through the chest and waist — size up one if you prefer a relaxed drape or extra room across the shoulders. 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