They were still so poor that their bodies seemed little more than collections of bones beneath worn saris, but their new assets offered hope.
"We want the memorials to be centers for the exchange of ideas, not collections of bones," said Ildephonse Karengera, the country's director of memorials.
There are plenty of collections of bones from animals such as reindeer, horses, bison and mammoths that are associated with Neanderthals, but few remains of rabbits or tortoises.
Do these live-animal shows mean that natural history museums are trying to break out of their image as collections of bones and dead things and become more like zoos?
Agency: RPA (USA) Director: Smith & Foulkes In case viewers have started taking their bodies for granted, Weetabix wishes to remind them just how remarkable our collections of bones, organs, and muscles are.
The paper is dotted with a few objects: a cluster of large stones and charcoal sticks, a stack of blank white paper, eight patterned swaths of fabric arranged as if they swaddled tiny bodies or collections of bones.
Andrewsarchus, which will be prominently displayed, is one of the ways the museum is ensuring that the whale exhibit is very much its own, and it also draws on the richness of the American museum's vast collections of bones and artifacts.
The brothers have purchased private collections of bones as well as the contents from a museum that was shut down in a school in North York.
Our new friend would leave us collections of bones along our fence line, which was a little startling but seemed more like an offering and a memory of his visit. .
The bones of a total of 179 people were found during the excavations of the Mary Rose, including 92 "fairly complete skeletons", more or less complete collections of bones associated with specific individuals.
A macabre collection of bone cups made from human skulls, unearthed in a Somerset cave, are the oldest of their kind, researchers believe.
