Historian in battle with Quebec over showcasing murder victim's skin in museum display
MONTREAL -- Historian Jamie Jelinski, after learning a piece of a murder victim's skin has been kept by Quebec for almost 100 years and was displayed in a museum, wants to know more -- but he hasn't been able to get any answers. The skin has a tattoo on it and belonged to a poor working woman who was killed by her best friend in 1929. Jelinski, who wrote a chapter in a book about museums' treatment of working-class people, also wants to know the bigger timeline of how people's body parts have been kept and put on display in Quebec. But after he started asking questions about this part...
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