Washington County News | 1899-01-28 | Page 3 | Bones are "Personal Effects"

Hones Are 'Tcrnonal Effects." A SwIhs anthropologist recently returned re-turned from a trip through Patagonia, He had with him many cases containing contain-ing skeletons and skulls that he had collected. The Swiss customs officers opened the cases, and, after long consultation, con-sultation, appraised the contents as "common bones," charging the scientist scien-tist a stiff duty. The explorer got angry and declared it a profanation to appraise human bones that way. To his surprise the customs officials were impressed by hia remarks, and retired for another consultation, classing them as "worn personal effects of foreign for-eign residents."