The World Museum in Tulsa held shrunken heads, life-size sculptures of headhunters, Thai orchestra instruments, several paintings by Gustave Doré, giant elephant tusks, and artifacts from ancient Chinese dynasties.
And every item it contained was gathered by one 'missionary evangelist' couple, Tommy Lee Osborn and his wife, Daisy, who traveled from country to country from the 1940s to the 1990s, performing healings and establishing churches. The closing of the World Museum in 1981 symbolized the end of an idea borne out of Victorian curiosity: Missionaries as anthropologists.
(thanks Lisa)
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