Wilhelm, Prins

Samligen består av arkeologiska föremål från Prins Wilhelms expedition 1920.
1-41 stenyxor (Centralamerika)
42-49 stenföremål från Honduras, Turneffe Island
50-57 lergods samt 58-59 diverse från Honduras, Turneffe Island
60 en blomsterkorg av snäck- och musselskal (en gåva till Prins Vilhelm vid hans besök på S:t Barthelemey.
61 huvud av sten (Centralamerika)
62-96 föremål av sten (Centralamerika)
97-146 keramik (Centralamerika)
147-171 pärlor och prydnader (Centralamerika)
172-180 snäckor/snäckskal (Centralamerika)
181-187 lergods (Centralamerika)
188-190 diverse material (Centralamerika)
191-193 diverse (Centralamerika)
194 skopa (Centralamerika)
195-204 snäckor.

Prince Wilhelm (Carl Wilhelm Ludwig, duke of Södermanland, 1884-1965) described his Centralamerican travels 1920 (in Guatemala, in Belize and along the eastern/caribbean coast of Yucatan paeninsula) in the travel account Mellan två kontinenter (1920; English translation, Between two continents, 1922). The collection is of research value, as well as the photographs (museum´s photo/picture archive) from the expedition. The Prince Wilhelm-collection was partly displayed in the museum´s own exhibition Treasures from the Land of the Feathered Serpent/Archaeological treasures from Mexico (1993-2001), which due to the International Americanist Congress held 1994 in Stockholm/Uppsala was enlarged with objects from Carl V. Hartman´s excavations 1896-97 in northern Costa Rica and Hartman´s purchases 1913-1914 of Precolumbian objects from Costa Rica, and with Carl Bovallius´ ethnographical (Talamanca, Costa Rica) objects as well as Precolumbian objects from the Andean area.
Furthermore, Prince Wilhelm´s Centralamerican travels is mentioned (together with a photography from the expedition) in the museum´s exhibition catalogue Maya (1992, text Staffan Brunius; the Maya exhibition 1992 with ca 80 loaned Precolumbian objects from Mexico and 20 from Guatemala). See also: Jan-Åke Alvarsson och Staffan Brunius, A brief introduction to the history of Swedish americanists, Svenska Amerikanistsällskapet (Swedish Americanist Society)/Acta Americana (1994). Researchers have during a number of occasions paid attention to the Prince Wilhelm-collection. The Prince Wilhelm-collection is one example of the many collections that the Swedish Royal family, and its close related relatives, have honored the museum: see e.g. 1832.3; 1886.1; (1887.8); 1893.9; 1903.9; 1912.9; 1920.8; 1928.1; 1931.25; 1931.26; 1935.6; 1936.9; 1937.5; 1938.2; 1938.36; 1942.24; 1946.42; 1950.3; 1955.37; 1957.7; 1960.30; 1961.26; 1962.1; 1967.24. SB, 2011-01-28.