I was working on the cranial collections, and it just struck me as ironic that here were people coming to see this gory, primitive, savage culture that they were almost fantasizing about and creating without really understanding what they were seeing, and all the while these vast -- I mean hundreds of thousands of skulls in our museums, all across Europe and the States -- were kind of upholding this Enlightenment pursuit of scientific rationality.
Radila sam na zbirkama lubanja, i pogodila me ironija ljudi dolaze vidjeti tu krvavu, primitivnu, divljačku kulturu da gotovo maštaju o njoj i stvaraju je bez da zaista razumiju što su to vidjeli, i svo to vrijeme ta količina -- stotine tisuća lubanja u našemu muzeju, diljem Europe i SAD-a -- podržavale su prosvjetiteljsku potragu za znanstvenom racionalnošću.