AVALON, Calif. (AP) — A Santa Catalina Island museum has opened an exhibit on a self-styled archaeologist who dug up hundreds of local American Indian graves and made a tourist trap out of their bones.
The exhibit on Ralph Glidden that opened over the weekend at Catalina Island Museum features an introduction that says he, through his unscientific plundering, disregarded “the sanctity of human remains” and inflicted “near-permanent damage” on research into local Native American life.
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