"The wanton display of sacred objects – or the display of an “Eskimo” skeleton in a museum – is despicable because it refuses to acknowledge that things from other cultures can have deep meaning the way things in our culture do, that things in other cultures can be sacred, that they are more than curious and that human remains are not just worthy of dignity but deserving of it. This will seem obvious to most people, I imagine. As it will seem obvious that none who truly thought of Qisuk as human – as opposed to a “specimen” – would have countenanced a display of his skeleton in the American Museum of Natural History."

We have skeletons in museums of prehistoric people, Egyptian mummies, bog people, Ötzi the Iceman, etc., none of which are considered "non-human". As for human remains "deserving dignity", there was outrage on the Left about a US proposal to require basic dignified treatment for "remains" from abortions, not matter what Christians and others consider sacred.