1. Introduction: 'To what strange uses' 2. European anatomists and indigenous Australian bodily remains, c. 1788-1820 3. Skeletal collecting before Darwin 4. Indigenous remains in British anatomical and ethnographic discourse, 1810-1850 5. British polygenists and the indigenous body, 1820-1880 6. 'Rare work for the professors' : phrenologists and the Australian skull, c. 1815-1860 7. Colonial museums and the indigenous dead, c. 1830-1874 8. 'Judicious collectors', 1870-1914 9. 'Tales of blood and mummies' : the Queensland Museum, 1870-1914 10. Murdered for science? : anthropological collecting and colonial violence in late nineteenth century Australia 11. Indigenous Australians' defence of the ancestral dead 12. Repatriation and its critics 13. Conclusion Erratum | 
