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Part Two: Phrenology: The Bastard Science of Racism

Behind the Bastards

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Yong's Head Sugar Bowl

On yong, the last full blooded man of the Nagambri people of the limestone planes in Australia died at the end of a rival spear in about 1850. Settlers dug him up and turned his skull into a sugar bowl on yong's descendants suspect that the sugar bowl is in a private home in Canberra. The guy who's believed to actually own this sugar bowl has never returned any phone calls about it. So there are clearly still some collectors who I'm going to guess are pretty racist living on Australia right now with like furniture and sugar bowls and stuff made out of the bones of aboriginal people.

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