IDNO

LS.143599.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Canary Is. [Islands] LVI Guanche 3, 4. 74.Gu.3, 4.
Guanche mummy, in Camb. Mus, [Cambridge Museum] front & back.

Documentary photograph of the front of the Guanche Mummy, brought to England by Capt. Young of H.M. Sloop "Weesel" Oct 1772. cf. Books No.51. MAA Object D 1914.96. [JD 19/1/2010, description from record P.79212.MUS, JD 11/02/2019]

Place

N Africa; W Europe; Europe British Isles; Spain; United Kingdom; Canary Islands; England; Cambridge; Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Fams, W.

Collector / Expedition

Date

Collection Name

Teaching Slide Collection

Source

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Related Object: Mentioned in the Object catalogue Note field is the following: "In the Deposit book, p.103, as part of the Cook Collection, but Cook Collection has been crossed off the catalogue card. However it appears as part of the Cook Collection in the AR of 1915." [JD 19/1/2010]
The Guanche Mummy is now within the Duckfield Collection. [Information by Imogen Gunn, JD 8/6/2014]

Context: "The cave-dwelling, goat-herding Guanches mummified their dead and although the Spanish again destroyed all the mummies they could find, the few which remain display highly sophisticated techniques of preservation using locally available materials. Recent examination has also suggested a link with the mummification practices of ancient Egypt, an important connection since the Guanches were still mummifying their dead when the Spanish arrived in the 15th century AD." [Source: www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/mummies_05.shtml, JD 28/3/2009