Negro of Banyoles

[1] Analysis of the teeth shows that the man was approximately 27 years old, having features typical of the African bushman.

At this date Alphonse Arcelin, a doctor of Haitian origin[4] who lived in Cambrils where he was a PSC councillor,[5] wrote a letter to the mayor of Banyoles, Joan Solana, asking him to stop displaying the San's remains.

[2] The first step towards the return of the "negre" to Botswana was made in 1991, when the then-secretary of UNESCO, Federico Mayor Zaragoza, held the meeting with Joan Solana.

[2] By that time, the "negre" had become so notorious that it was quite usual to hear references made to the displayed San in diplomatic communications.

The only record of the San in the museum is a silent video with black and white images on a small plasma screen.