Los 4079

Peru
Peruvian archaeological and cultural objects

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Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts (Katalog nur online verfügbar)
Auktionsdatum 28.11.2026

Photographer: Rafael Castillo Gómez (1844-1887). Peruvian Funerary and Archaeological Objects. 1880s. Albumen print. 21,7 x 16,5 cm. Annotated in pencil on verso: “4.”

Castillo’s carefully staged survey assembles a mummified body and three mummified heads with ceramics, figurines, textiles and cordage, documenting the late nineteenth-century collection and display of Peruvian funerary material. Such images made excavated objects and human remains portable for scholarly, museum and private collections, while detaching them from their burial contexts. The group may relate to the collection of William T. Smithies, whose Peruvian holdings included funerary skulls, false heads and textiles from the Rímac Valley.