Eugène Pittard profited from the trafficking of human remains practised in British colonies. In 1924, the South African Museum loaned him a collection of bones attributed to a Khoisan people, partly decimated during the Dutch then British colonization of southern Africa in the 18th and 19th centuries. The collection, put together in particular through the unauthorized exhumation of corpses, was in the study centre of the University laboratory between 1924 and 1948.
C. Montebello