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In an old country town high school library there is a glass case that displays something highly unusual and, for some, confronting.
Inside that glass case is a mummified head and according to its plaque, it was donated to Grafton High School around 1915.
Now, over 100 years later, questions are being raised about where it really came from and whether it really belongs there.
Credits:
- Presenter: Marc Fennell
- Producer: Zoe Ferguson
- ABC RN Executive Producer: Amruta Slee
- CBC Executive Producers: Cesil Fernandes and Chris Oke
- CBC Senior Producer: Tina Verma
- Sound Engineer: Martin Peralta
Guests:
- Simon Robertson - Grafton High School history teacher
- Stacey Martin - Grafton High School history teacher
- Stephen Tatham - Grafton High School former history teacher
- Dr Melanie Pitkin - Senior Curator, Nicholson Collection - Chau Chak Wing Museum
- Candace Richards - Assistant Curator, Nicholson Collection - Chau Chak Wing Museum
- Heba Abd El Gawad - Egyptologist and researcher
- Eleanor Dobson - Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth Century Literature at the University of Birmingham
- Dr Janet Davey - Forensic Egyptologist at Monash University Department of Forensic Medicine and based at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine
- Lauren Greig - Head of clinical services at Siemens Healthineers, Australia, New Zealand
- Grafton High School students: Leticia Black, Matheu Clark, Tessa Darby, Molly Dungey, Oskar Robertson, Miriam Taylor
With thanks to Fady Rafat and Nick Parmeter.
This podcast is a co-production of ABC Australia and CBC Podcasts.
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