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Q04 :: Gravfynd

Object description

Etiketten berättar att det är ”gravfynd från Peru”. Trasorna som idag ligger huller om buller i lådan har alltså en gång omsorgsfullt begravts tillsammans med människokroppar i Ancón på Perus kust.

Till Ancón kom den svenska Vanadisexpeditionen på 1880-talet, men textilierna är mycket äldre än så. Vanadisexpeditionen hemförde också mumier och kranier från gravområdet. Idag diskuteras hur man ska hantera mänskliga kvarlevor i museisamlingar.

Data elements
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Monterdel

Q04

Magasinet - id

Q04

Titel

Gravfynd

Titel, engelska

Burial finds

Beskrivning

Beskrivning - engelska

The label tells us they are “burial finds from Peru”. So these rags, today disheveled in a drawer, once were carefully buried with human bodies in Ancón on the Peruvian coast.

The Swedish Vanadis expedition arrived in Ancón in the 1880’s, but these textiles are much older. The Vanadis expedition also brought mummies and craniums from this burial area. Today there is an ongoing discussion about how to handle human remains in museum collections.

Slinga - ingår i

Slinga 2

Magasinet - slinga

Men vad nu? Bland alla prydligt sorterade föremål en låda full av smutsiga trasor som ligger hoptrasslade i varandra. Några av trasorna bär spår av mänsklig hud och hår.

Vi vet inte hur människorna i gravarna en gång föreställt sig tillvaron efter döden, men tygerna som tagits från gravarna var en del i en världsbild där levande och döda hade sina bestämda platser.

Fortsätt till monter P12.

Slinga - sortering

Magasinet - slinga, engelska

What’s this supposed to be? Among all the neatly classified items there is a drawer full of grimy rags, tangled together, some of them with traces of human hair and skin.

The label tells us they are “burial finds from Peru”. So these rags, today disheveled in a drawer, once were carefully buried with human bodies in Ancón on the Peruvian coast.

We don’t know how the people in the graves once imagined life after death. However, the textiles from the graves were part of a conception of the world where the living and the dead held their specific positions.

Continue to showcase P12.

Slinga - titel

Dra ut en låda!

Slinga - titel, engelska

Pull out a drawer!

Belongs to Del av utställning

Magasinet - Q, Donerat, upphittat, överblivet

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