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Smithsonian Returns 80 Year Old Brain

NPR

Published August 7, 2000 at 9:00 PM PDT

NPR's Laura Sydell reports that the Smithsonian Institution will return an important cultural artifact to a Native American group today. For the past 80 years, the brain of the last Yahi Indian has been part of the Smithsonian's collection of Native American remains.