Name:
I
am the ghost of Herbert Eustis Winlock since I was born in 1884 and died in
1950.
Occupation/known
for:
I am a world renowned Egyptologist and worked at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art
climbing the ranks to Director in 1932.
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I was a better Egyptologist and was better at
excavations
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I had to take the director’s position due to
the Depression
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Before I was Director of MMA I was Director
of Excavations in Egypt
Accomplishments:
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Found statue fragments of Queen Hatshepsut
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Worked with Dr. J. Morton Howell
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Which is the topic of why I am here today
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I am here to tell you the story of how Dayton
got a mummy
Dr.
J. Morton Howell:
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From Dayton
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Doctor- specialized in children’s medicine
& health
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Author: wrote scientific, medical, and
adventure books
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Became U.S. Ambassador of Egypt 1922-1927
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Appointed by President Harding
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Brought Egyptology to Dayton
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Arranged for two mummies to be brought to
Dayton
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I assisted him with shipping one mummy I
found in 1922 at an excavation in Thebes. It was sent to the Dayton Society of
Natural History (back in the 1920s & 30s it was still part of the Dayton
Public Library)
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Other mummy came from a French excavation in
Deir el-Medina
Mummies:
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late 1800s/early 1900s mummies were treated
poorly and carelessly
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some were displayed in private homes as
center pieces or for show at dinner parties
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Some were torn apart and different pieces
were sold separately as tourist items and commodities
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Some were destroyed from grave robbers
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I reburied many of the mummies I found after
taking intricate notes first, in order to preserve them and prevent these awful
acts from happening
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I was very happy to allow for and assist Dr.
Howell in bringing a mummy to Dayton to be in a museum for educational and
research purposes
Legalities involving antiquities during the 1920s
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By the 1920s an Egyptian Antiquities law had
been passed that prohibited giving antiquities to foreign officials (but it was
still a bit flax)
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There was still a ‘division of finds’ between
the Egyptian govt. and foreign expeditions which allowed people like me on
expeditions to donate finds
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This is how I was able to give Howell a mummy
for Dayton
Nesiur:
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Mummy’s name is Nesiur (Esiur)
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She was buried ca. 700 B.C. in a tomb near
the Temple Deir el-Bahari
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I gave Howell Nesiur, 4 limestone canopic
jars, & a number of blue faience ushabtis (statues) to display at the
museum.
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Canopic jars: Baboon- lungs
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Baboon-lungs
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Human- liver
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Jackal- stomach
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Falcon- intestines
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The canopic jars and faience statues are not
from the same tomb as Nesiur but are from the same time period……I thought they
would be good examples of burial goods to be displayed with Nesiur at the
museum
Now the people of Dayton can learn about another far away
culture and understand it a little better.
Boonshoft Museum of Discovery, Dayton
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