LAS VEGAS (AP) - Two human skulls and two human jaw bones were discovered in archival storage boxes by a volunteer, prompting an investigation, Clark County Museum officials said.
The 50-year-old museum grew from a collection of items from the Las Vegas Valley’s first female mortician Anna Roberts Parks, The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Thursday.
This was the first time human remains were found in Parks collection, Museum registrar Cynthia Sanford said.
“She had lots of animal bones and things along those lines, but we’ve never found human remains before,” Sanford said. “She was a mortician, so it seems like that would be kind of a weird line to cross.”
A volunteer was going through archival boxes Dec. 5 when the four bones were found, Sanford said.
The bones were brought to the Clark County coroner’s office for investigation, officials said.
The museum has more than a million pieces in its collection, but they are not well-cataloged and only about 50,000 of the items are recorded, Sanford said. The museum has been sorting through and organizing to get an accurate record, she said.
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