1886.2.107

Collection type

Object

Description

Textile wrapping from a mummy

Geographical reference

Peru

Latin America and the Caribbean > South America > Peru

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

Date collected

Before 1882

Acquisition information

Transferred: 1886

Materials and processes

Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Material Camelid Wool Textile Animal, Process Woven

Dimensions

Length: max 270 mm, Width: max 80 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1886.2.107

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]

Information from Irene Good, Visiting Curator, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard, 2003: This pieces has a very complex structure. [JN 29/4/2003]

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, Mummy Wrapping