After reckoning over Smithsonian's 'racial brain collection,' woman's brain returned

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The brain of an Alaska woman who died nearly a century ago was finally returned to her burial site after the Smithsonian Institution released it from its collection.

Relatives of Mary Sara, an 18-year-old Sami woman who died from tuberculosis in 1933, gathered at her burial plot in Seattle late last month to bury her brain with the rest of her remains, the Washington Post reports. Martha Sara Jack, Sara's cousin, traveled with her husband Fred from Wasilla, Alaska, along with Rachel Twitchell-Justiss, a distant cousin from Spokane, Washington.

After Sara died under his care, Dr. Charles Firestone removed her brain without her family's consent and sent it to Ales Hrdlicka, an anthropologist who believed in the superiority of white people and was also the curator of physical anthropology at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, according to the Post.