The Gaze Takes, the Witness Returns: Sarah Baartman’s Homecoming

Podcast: Project I Am · Dr. David J Schlosz

Opublikowano: 2026-11-02

One pound for a skull in good order. In a Cape Town museum, Dr. David Schlosz stands in front of a 1923 letter pricing human remains and faces how much he was never taught. Sarah Baartman was a Khoekhoe woman from the Gamtoos Valley. She was taken to London in 1810 and put on display, then exhibited in Paris, then dissected after her death, and her remains stayed on show in a French museum for generations. In 2002, one hundred and ninety two years after she left, she was carried home and buried on a hill above Hankey, in the...