👁️🗨️ Pedro the Mummy (lost)
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- The San Pedro Mountains mummy (known informally as "Pedro") is a mummy discovered in Wyoming in the 1930s and since lost. Scientific analyses have concluded that it is the mummy of a Native American infant that was born with anencephaly, but its small size and unusual physical features led to theories that it was an early hominid or that it was related to legends of little people. A similar mummy that was studied in the 1990s has been nicknamed "Chiquita".
- Resources on Pedro the Mummy
- If found, the remains of this infant should be returned and reinterred on Native lands.
- “If the mummy ever turns up again, it would be subject to the Native American Graves and Repatriation Act as it is almost certainly the body of an American Indian child taken from a grave. — Cowboy State Daily
- “Nowhere else in Wyoming do we have burials sitting up like that. Never sitting up with legs crossed and arms folded across their chest. There's a clear connection between the two of them, besides being in the same region,” Gill said. “It’s something I haven't seen in the hundreds of prehistoric burials I have examined, so it is obvious that these infants were handled in a special way.”
— Cowboy State Daily referring to two infant mummies discovered in Wyoming, Pedro and Chiquita
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