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Collection number Text from the original catalogue

1932.16

1935.32

ARCHAEOLOGICAL COLLECTION from PERU

Collection from Peru, mostly from Nasca.

(The Spanish designations are taken from the original catalogue.)

Earthenware vessels 1-39 are not listed in the original catalogue.

Gift from a donor who wishes to remain anonymous.

There is an original catalogue in Spanish with objects nos 40-204.

1971.06.0001

Archaeological ceramic from Chancay, Peru. Purchased from Sea

Captain Anders Johansson, Pl. 8255 Ebbagården, SE-430 34 Onsala,

Sweden.

The earthenware vessel was collected in Peru in 1971 by Sea Captain

Anders Johansson.

Price SEK 200 on 29.3.1971.

1972.03

Archaeological objects from Peru purchased from a Peruvian-Swedish

private collector on 17 February 1972 during a visit to Gothenburg,

Sweden. Purchase price SEK 2,370, of which the copper jerkin from

the Chimú culture was SEK 1,200, the miniature ceramic from the

Chimú culture SEK 270, and the Inca ceramic from Sipán in northern

Peru SEK 900. The seller has 25 years of experience from northern

Peru and the finds that can and are made.

Catalogued by S. Henry Wassén.

App. in orig. cat.

1973.25.0031 1973.25.0001-0035

No 1-31, archaeological objects from Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama,

Colombia, Bolivia and Peru.

No 32-35, ethnographical objects from Peru and Panama.

Purchases from Karin Wassén, Gothenburg, Sweden, on 15.08.1973

for SEK 6,000. The seller had had many of the objects as personal

possessions since 1947 when she took part in her husband’s
expedition to Latin America.

Catalogued by S. Henry Wassén in August 1973.

App.: Catalogue.

Nomenclature list of archaeological finding places in Panama set up

by the Archaeological Society of Panama (later dissolved due to

resistance from the Panameño-side against the Americans in the party)

on 15.09.1962.

1973.21 Gift collection, no 1-7 archaeological and no 8-9 ethnographical

objects, collected by First Secretary Ulf Lewin, Skinnarviksringen 4

A, SE-117 26 Stockholm, Sweden, between 1968-1969, when he

served at the Embassy of Sweden in Colombia.

The collection was presented as a gift to the Museum Manager of

GEM’s collections at a meeting in Stockholm, Sweden, 26 June 1973.

Comp. coll. 1973.22.

Catalogued by Henry Wassén 3 July 1973.

1975.12.0009-19 1975.12.0001-0019

Archaeological collection from Ecuador, Colombia and Peru

consisting of ceramics (figure vessels, figurines, “grater”), necklace
and a tumi knife.

Purchased by and sold to GEM by First Secretary Ulf Lewin,

Stockholm, Sweden, for SEK 5,600.

Arrived at GEM 15.07.1975.

Catalogued by Sven-Erik Isacsson 16.12.1975

1978.15.0018 Archaeological figure vessel in the form of a squatting male figure

with a clasp vessel “on his back”. A popular title of the vessel is
Canastero. Calima style Height: 17 cm.

1990.04 Archaeological collection from Peru.

Gift: B.A: Runneström. Arrived at GEM 23.01.1990.

Bengt Runneström’s comments on the collection:
“Also enclosed is the list of the objects in the textile collection with
everything I know about them, which, to be honest, is not very much

as I was not present when the objects were acquired. However, I have

travelled out to the people in Chancay, who live off grave-robbing, to

see how it is done. They go out to places in the desert where they

know from long before of the existence of graves in the sand. They

carry a long, thin iron rod with which they penetrate the sand where

they believe there may be a grave. When they feel that the rod has

gone through something hollow and hard (a pot), they pull up the rod

and begin to dig. The mummy is then loaded directly into the boot of a

collector’s car, or thrown away together with the pot in the sand, and
only the valuable things are taken care of to sell later.”