According to EWmagazine two discussions are mixed up. The first is about the ethics of exhibiting human remains. Even an exuberantly decorated skull once belonged to a living man. Making such an object accessible to the public can be painful for descendants of the people to which the dead belonged.
On the other hand, the objects often come from cultures in which the remains of the deceased were given special importance. This means that the objects, especially in their decorated form, are more an expression of a culture than the remnant of a human life. So they can be in their place in a museum.
