- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Textile wrapping from a mummy
- Long description
- Mummy wrapping: textile with diagonal rows of birds in white on a red ground, with coloured spots. From Mummy II, an adult woman buried with Mummy IV, a newborn child. Attributed to Late Intermediate Period by LM.
- Geographical reference
- Lima Region Ancon Necropolis of Ancon Mummy II
- Person
- Field collector William Alison Dyke Acland
- PRM source Oxford University Museum of Natural History
- PRM source Department of Comparative Anatomy, Oxford University Museum of Natural History
- PRM source Acland collection
- Date / Period
- Date made: 1000-1476?, uncertain
- Date collected
- Before 1882
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1886
- Dimensions
- Width: max 330 mm, Length: max 400 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1886.2.105
- Research and responses
For further information about Commander W.A.D. Acland see Biographies file. He served in Peru in the early 1880s and may have collected these objects at that time [AP 1/9/99].
Notes taken during a research visit by Ann Rowe (Textile Museum Washington) March 2012: This type of double cloth has been associated with the North Coast, however at this time it was also a feature of the Central Coast. She suggests it is possibly from mummy I. [JN 22/05/2012]
- Associated publications
- Note in the 'Oxford University Gazette' vol.XIII no.436, 28 November 1882: 'Donation to the University Museum. The Delegates of the Museum announce that four Peruvian Mummies, from Angon near Lima, presented by Commander W. Acland, R.N., have been opened and examined; and that a series of objects of ethnological interest obtained from them are now on view in the University Museum. These objects comprise children's toys, grotesque ornaments, articles of food, and specimens of coloured fabrics, with patterns and figures of animals, characteristic of Peruvian art.' (FL 6-2-06)
Search terms: Death, Religion, Textile, Figure, Mummy, Grave Good, Bird Figure, Mummy Wrapping