Editing Pancho Villa (section)

===Aftermath of his death===
[[File:Monumento a la Revolución 1.jpg|thumb|The [[Monumento a la Revolución|Monument to the Revolution]] in Mexico City, where a number of revolutionaries, including Villa, are buried at this pilgrimage site to the Revolution even if they were adversaries during the conflict.]]

Villa was buried the day after his assassination in the city cemetery of [[Parral, Chihuahua]],<ref name=Katz/>{{rp|767}} rather than in Chihuahua city, where he had built a mausoleum. Villa's skull was stolen from his grave in 1926.<ref name=plana>Plana, Manuel. ''Pancho Villa and the Mexican Revolution'', Interlink Books, 2002, p. 117.</ref> According to local folklore, an American treasure hunter, [[Emil Lewis Holmdahl|Emil Holmdahl]], beheaded him to sell his skull to an eccentric millionaire who collected the heads of historic figures.<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://publisher.abc-clio.com/9781610695688/1104|title=American Myths, Legends, and Tall Tales: An Encyclopedia of American Folklore|last=Butticè|first=Claudio|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=2016|isbn=978-1610695671|editor-last=Fee|editor-first=Christopher R.|volume=3|location=Santa Barbara, CA|pages=998–1001|chapter=Villa, Pancho (1878–1923)|chapter-url=https://www.academia.edu/31751217}}{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The skull is rumored to be in the possession of Yale University's [[Skull and Bones]] Society, a claim they deny.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2024-02-24 |title=PANCHO VILLA SKULL AT YALE? |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1988/08/11/pancho-villa-skull-at-yale/86767821-0a40-4946-b06c-36b5803423ba/ |access-date=2024-05-22 |work=Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Robbins |first=Alexandra |url=http://archive.org/details/secretsoftombsku00robb |title=Secrets of the tomb : Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the hidden paths of power |date=2002 |publisher=Boston : Little, Brown |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-316-72091-5 |pages=7, 146}}</ref> His remains were reburied in the [[Monumento a la Revolución|Monument to the Revolution]] in Mexico City in 1976.<ref name=Benjamin /> The [[Francisco Villa Museum]] is a museum dedicated to Villa located at the site of his assassination in Parral.

Villa's purported [[death mask]] was hidden at the Radford School in El Paso, Texas until the 1980s, when it was sent to the [[Historical Museum of the Mexican Revolution]] in Chihuahua. Other museums have ceramic and bronze representations that do not match this mask.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2006/07/12/questions-begin-to-arise-over-death-mask-of-pancho-villa/ |title=Questions Begin to Arise Over Death Mask of Pancho Villa |last=MacCormack |first=John |newspaper=San Antonio Express-News |date=12 July 2006}}</ref>