Tucson:
The Arizona State Museum once
featured an exhibit that contained native American mummies, but that
was back in the days when many people failed to realize the need to
respect the recent dead (most native American mummies died 500 years
ago or less). Those mummies have fortunately now been repatriated to
tribes in Arizona. The museum has excellent, thoughtful displays and
still exhibits two mummies--they are puppies, found in the same dry
caves where native Americans sometimes buried their dead. The museum
features an exhibit on early peoples (especially from the southwest),
and includes a few skeletal finds of mammoths complete with spear
points (now replicas) still embedded in one section of rib cage
(apparently early people ganged up on the mammoth and repeatedly
thrust their points into the area to make sure they killed their
prey).
