Man Who Invented Aztec Crystal Skulls

The Adventures of Eugene Boban

AvJane MacLaren Walsh,Brett Topping

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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Eugene Boban began life in humble circumstances in Paris, traveled to the California Gold Rush, and later became a recognized authority on pre-Columbian cultures. He also invented an entire category of archaeological artifact: the Aztec crystal skull. By his own admission, he successfully "palmed off" a number of these crystal skulls on the curators of Europe's leading museums. How could that happen, and who was this man? Detailed are the travels, self-education, and archaeological explorations of Eugene Boban; this book also explores the circumstances that allowed him to sell fakes to museums that would remain undetected for over a century.

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-11-29
Mått:152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt:640 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:348
Förlag:Berghahn Books
ISBN:9781789200959

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Jane MacLaren Walsh, anthropologist emerita at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, is an internationally recognized authority on crystal skulls and other fake pre-Columbian antiquities. Her most recent research combines geology and archaeology in a study of the iconic stone faces of Teotihuacan.Brett Topping has been a professional writer and editor of arts and humanities publications for more than thirty-five years. During her career she was Editor at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, and Director of Publications for the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA).

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"An excellent biography of a little-known but important figure in the nineteenth-century history of American archaeology..." - Norman Hammond, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge University

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List of illustrationsAcknowledgmentsAuthors' NoteList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: On the Trail of Crystal SkullsChapter 1. Caveat EmptorChapter 2. Between Old World and NewChapter 3. Mexico: Ancient to ModernChapter 4. Mexico at Mid-CenturyChapter 5. The Emperor's Antiquarian: A Collection Takes ShapeChapter 6. Confronting a Different ParisChapter 7. Marketing a CollectionChapter 8. A Premier CollectionChapter 9. Narratives of ProvenanceChapter 10. The Rue du Sommerard Decade Chapter 11. Of Fakes and FakersChapter 12. From Student to Teacher: Dealer to CuratorChapter 13. Good Deals and BadChapter 14. Back in BusinessChapter 15. Fingerprints on Crystal SkullsChapter 16. Courting the SmithsonianChapter 17. Of Fakes, Forgers and FraudsChapter 18. "El Tocayo's" TriumphChapter 19. Later LifeChapter 20. AfterlifeEpilogueReferencesIndex