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  • Collection: Mummies

AbbottCatalogue_0002.jpg
Some of the mummies and antiquities in the Abbott Collection.

Barnummummyad.jpg
Illustrations of two coffins on exhibition with Barnum's circus.

Barnum royal mummy.jpg
Barnum hyping up his mummy.

Catalogue Barnum mummy.jpg
Image and description of a mummy in Barnum's museum. Does not match the image in the view of the Sixth Saloon or the image from Sights and wonders in New York.

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Snippet of advertising for the mummies at the Boston Museum.

Chicago skull.jpg
Skull collected by Joseph Dorfeuille for the Western Museum.

Gliddon broadside.jpg
The broadside Gliddon issues in Boston for his lecture series and for the mummy unwrappings.

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Coffins of Got-Mut-As-Anch, one of the mummies Gliddon unwrapped in Philadelphia.

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Handwritten anonymous note about the unwrapping of Got-Mut-As-Anch.

GliddonLinen.jpg
Scraps of the linen wrappings of Got-Mut-As-Anch, one of the mummies Gliddon upnwrapped in Philadelphia. The collector is unknown.

Crania aegyptiaca.jpg
Drawings of Egyptian mummy skulls in the collection of Samuel George Morton.

Mormon mummy head.jpg
The only known illustration of one of the mummies which Michael Chandler had.

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Notes by Samuel George Morton on the types of mankind and the subject of race.

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19th century ethnological study of monogenism and polygenism. To this date, this book has been castigated as being one of the most racist books ever published

Egypt skulls.jpg
Ethnological description of Egyptian mummy skulls.

Boston mummy head.jpg
This is the head of the mummy Gliddon unwrapped in Boston.

Padi coffin face.jpg
The face of the inner coffin of the mummy Padihershef. Modern photograph taken in the Ether Dome at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Padihersef.jpg
The mummy of Padihershef as he was displayed in the trough of his innermost coffin at the Ether Dome, Massachusetts General Hospital. The glass case is the original, made by Henry Williams.

Padihershef in case.jpg
Padhershef in the original wood and glass cases made by Henry Williams.

Padioputerstanding.jpg
Padihershef's outer coffin as it would have been displayed.

Padi inner coffin2.jpg
Lid of the inner coffin of Padihershef, at the Ether Dome, Massachusetts General Hospital.

Blockhead1.jpg
Artidle showing venues for the exhibition of the "Blockhead Mummy."

PadiStereotype .jpg
Advertisement for the exhibition of Padihershes in Philadelphia.

Metal Padi ouside.jpg
Intaglio print of the lid of the outer coffin of Padihershef.

Metal Padi inside.jpg
Intaglio print of the lid of the outer coffin of Padihershef

Padiouter2.jpg
Outer coffin in new display after conservation at the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum.

Padi outer coffin.jpg
Trough or the outer coffin of Padihershef after conservation and restoration.

Mummy book cover.jpg
A history of Egyptian mummies as artifacts in 19th century America.

Family magazine.jpg
Unidentified mummy and its case.

Youth's magazine.jpg
Unidentified mummy and its coffin.

Turner's mummy ad.jpg
Woodcut of the mummy brought into America by Captain Larkin Turner.

Blockhead 1.jpg
Variant exhibition brochure for the Blockhead mummy. One of a pai of mummies brought by Henry Barclay and purchased by Rubens Peale.

Phrenology head 1.jpg
Head of a female mummy in the Phrenological Museum of New York.

Barnummummies4.jpg
Two wrapped mummies on display with Barnum's circus at Watertown, Conn. (Adult & child?)

Blockhead adv.jpg
Outer coffin of one of a pair of mummies brought by Henry Barclay and purchased by Rubens Peale.

Boylston mummy 3.jpg
Masthead of the first newspaper to publish the arrival of Ward Nicholas Boylston's mummy.

mummy cartoon.jpg
Advertising cut (type) for sale by A.N. Kellogg Newspaper Co.

Lee's mummy.jpg
Mummy brought into New York City in 1824 by Captain Larkin Thorndike Lee.

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Adverisement for the exhibition of the mummy in Newark, N.J.

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Notice of the sale, including a mummy.

Dwights small.jpg
Reworked picture of mummy and coffins--altered to fit landscape mode.

Phrenology head 2.jpg
Male mummy head in the collection of the Phrenological Museum of New York.

Greenwood broadside.jpg
Advertisement for display of the two mummies from the Peregrine and Larkin Turner's mummy.

Peregrine mummy 1.jpg
Outer coffin of an unidentified male mummy which arrived aboard the brig Peregrine in Boston in 1824.

Peregrine mummy 2.jpg
Inner coffin of an unidentified female mummy, which arrived on the brig Peregrine in 1824.

Drawing of Barnum mummy.jpg
Drawing of an unidentified mummy in Barnum's American Museum. This may be a generic drawing as it does not match the images in the museum catalogue.

Barnum program.jpg
List of exhibits, including mummies.

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Unidentified mummy, in colored coffin.

Turner's mummy.jpg
Woodblock of Djedkhonsuiuesankh (Mummy)

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"Mummy wheat" or "Egyptian wheat"

Everyday life mummy.jpg
An image of an "everyday" coffin which is similar to the one shown in the Barnum advertisement.

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Mummies at the British Museum.
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