The Last Unwrapping

In 1852, Gliddon was In New Orleans, giving his series of lectures and offering to unwrap his last mummy. The Daily Picayune of 27 February 1852 noted:

"Opening of a mummy.—This climax of Mr. Gliddon’s lectures on Egyptian antiquities will take place this evening at the Lyceum Hall." Lyceum Hall was then located on the second floor of the City Hall.

Again there were no surprises. This mummy was given the name “Nefer Atethu” or “Beautiful youth” by Guido Lombardi many years later during a radiological study of her. She and Got-Thoti-Aunk, the mummy unwrapped in Boston, were given to the museum at Tulane in 1851 by Gliddon and Josiah C. Nott.

According to Heather Pringle's The Mummy Congress; Science, Obsession, and the Everlasting Dead (New York: Theia, 2001), the two mummies and their coffins were stored in various locations, including a space under the bleachers in the football stadium. They attended three Super Bowl games (and numerous college games) before being rescued, in the mid 1970’s,  and placed in a somewhat more appropriate setting at the college.

According to Samuel Morton’s catalogue of skulls, the head of Got-mut-as-Ankh  (#1524) was given to him for that collection. It is not known what happened to the rest of the body, nor to the child’s mummy unwrapped in Philadelphia.