ALBANY, Ore. (AP) — A human skull that once served as a college mascot in Albany has been turned over to the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde.
KGW-TV reports the tribes received the skull Tuesday and planned a ceremony to bury it.
Linn County sheriff’s detectives re-examined a cold case last year, contacting a man who had taken the skull to his Sweet Home grade school when he was a boy in 1984 for show-and-tell.
The investigation traced the skull back to Albany College, which used a skull and crossbones for its Pirate mascot. The school moved to Portland in 1943 and is now Lewis and Clark College.