In the second decade of the 20th century, Dr. Robert J. Terry began to collect human skeletons from cadavers used in the Medical School’s Anatomy classes. Documentation of the individual consists of morgue records with the name of the individual, the sex, age and ethnic identity, as well as various dates and records related to body collection and preservation processes. In 1967 a transaction was made between the Anatomy Department at Washington University Medical School and the National Museum of Natural History’s Anthropology Department to transfer the Terry Collection to it’s current curation in the Division of Physical Anthropology. For more information on the history of this collection, please visit (http://anthropology.si.edu/cm/terry.htm ) This individual, Terry Collection 815, is a modern human (Homo sapiens), female, 32 years of age, of African ancestry. This is a CT scan of Terry Collection 815.
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