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Scalps
Scalps is a 1983 American horror film directed by Fred Olen Ray that concerns a vengeful Native American spirit.
Plot.
Six college archeology students work on a dig in the California desert, despite the warnings of a professor and the town drunk. When the group digs around in an Indian burial ground for artifacts, they unleash the evil spirit of Black Claw. The spirit possesses one of the group and begins slaughtering them one by one.
Cast.
- Jo-Ann Robinson as D.J.
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on return of artifacts for the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, wrote a letter asking for return of the scalps. Later in 2014, the Museum agreed to turn the scalps over to another institution for authentication. The Museum had not returned the scalps as of 2016, saying there were doubts about the original story of the provenance of the 17 scalps, although they did remove them from public display.
The director of the museum in Radebul from 1985 to 2014 was René Wagner; Christian Wacker was appointed director