South American mummy trafficking

Datos Bibliográficos

ID14904151
AutoresChristopher Carter (0000-0002-6817-7780, Australian National University, autor de correspondencia), Flora Vilches (0009-0000-5427-0565, Australian National University, autor de correspondencia), C M Santoro (0000-0002-3702-8408, Australian National University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Volumen29
Número3
Páginas395-407
Fecha de publicación2017-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of the History of Collections (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0954-6650 • E-ISSN: 1477-8564
EditorialOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/jhc/fhw031
OpenAlexW2559162368
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas12

Nineteenth-century fascination for the exhibition of mummies from around the world promoted the trafficking of cultural objects from remote places including, as reviewed here, the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. While well-funded and organized expeditions travelled the world seeking this material, independent sailors and traders also returned to Europe and beyond with items of exotica for sale. The Macleay Museum, at the University of Sydney, has the well-preserved remains of a human female in its collection, with no record of its provenance. The remains may correspond to two Peruvian mummies brought to Australia by Captain George Duniam in 1851. Besides mummies, his worldwide enterprises included the trafficking of slaves from Polynesia to the coast of South America, and camelids out of Peru – practices still current in the twenty-first century.

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art history · Desert (philosophy) · Ethnology · Exhibition · Geography · George (robot) · Political science · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · History · Law · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies