Harvard curates bird specimens while ignoring the enslaved people it photographed

Evidence

I learned later that the Agassiz Museum of Comparative Zoology was in another wing—which meant that my ancestors were housed in the same building as the skeletons of birds Agassiz had donated to Harvard when he founded that museum in 1859. It was all so inhumane to me. It made me feel like they were being kept in a zoo. Agassiz began that collection with twenty-five bird specimens, the museum proudly boasts on its website. And what of Renty? And Delia? They’re not mentioned on the Peabody site. Why? — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 239

Categorization

• XREF: Contrast with institutional commemoration practices — how Harvard documents its ornithological founding while erasing the enslaved subjects it documented. Resonates with broader discourse on university complicity and memorialization.
• QUESTION: Worth verifying whether the Peabody site and Museum of Comparative Zoology pages have since added acknowledgments of Renty and Delia.