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Doug Higley 1942 - 2022 7152 Posts |
For some odd reason the other thread on Heads did not let me reply so here is the info any one interested in shrunken heads should have. I don't know about the guy in Belgium mentioned in the other thread but I know Bill Jaimeson and so does most of the world. Do see his PRO site and read his bio below. His VAST collection of heads has traveled the world. When I make a Shrunken Head for the Dark Museum, I am not trying to duplicate the Shuar heads...mine are heads of my imagination, usually caucasian, that for some reason the public believes are the real thing. They are mere cartoons compared to the real thing and this web site will teach you all you need to know if you are interested in them.
See this web site!: http://www.head-hunter.com/ The Collector/Curator William Jamieson Ethnologist, Museologist, Antique Tribal Art Consultant. Bill’s interests evolve around the forgotten cultures and customs of the South Pacific, Indonesia, sub-Sahara Africa, pre-Columbian Americas, and North American First Nations. His expertise has been drawn upon by National Geographic’s documentary production unit, as well as by numerous museums and researchers. Bill’s much publicized home, termed “Collector chic” by the Globe and Mail, is the first residence in Canada to be architecturally designed to incorporate a living museum. Through an interest in disappearing Andean-Amazonian tribal rituals, Bill has financed and led five expeditions into Ecuador and Peru from 1995 to 2001, researching traditional naturopathic healings and related rituals. Focusing on the Shuar tribe of Ecuador, made famous for their past custom of shrinking heads, Bill has amassed the most extensive Shuar library and archival photos in existence, including a collection of shrunken human heads. Bill’s next expedition will be to the formerly restricted region of Nagaland in eastern India and north-western Myanmar to visit the Naga tribe. During 1998, Bill purchased Canada ’s oldest museum, the Niagara Falls Museum. Established in 1828, the museum held title to the name The Explorers Club in Canada. Bill donated the name to The Explorers Club in New York City. Amoungst the collections of his newly acquired museum was a whale skeleton, as well as nine Egyptian mummies that had been in the museum’s collection since 1861 Suspecting that one of the mummies might be a royal mummy, Bill sold all nine of them to the Michael C. Carlos Museum in Atlanta, were it was confirmed that one of the mummies was that of Pharaoh Rameses I. Rameses I was returned to Egypt. Bill is also an antique tribal art dealer and he has set records at Sotheby’s in New York for the sales of Polynesian antiquities. Bill attended Toronto’s York University.
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Wonderful website.
The Ghent collection has a larger variety of heads - not all shrunken - even from european traditions. Another exhibition - La mort n'en saura rien - was displayed at the Musée National des Arts d’Afrique et d’Océanie (MNAAO)in France. A wonderful catalog is available for the amateur. http://www.exporevue.com/magazine/fr/mort.html |
Doug Higley 1942 - 2022 7152 Posts |
Some really interesting images if you navigate the archives of that site. Thanks!
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Foucault Elite user New Jersey, USA 424 Posts |
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On 2006-01-16 10:51, Doug Higley wrote: I saw a documentary about this particular mummy, how it came to be at Niagara Falls, and how it was ascertained that it was almost certainly Rameses I, on PBS just a week or two ago. Fascinating. |
Doug Higley 1942 - 2022 7152 Posts |
What is really ODD about that recent identification is when I visited this museum (many times) as a kid in the 1950's, it was on the New York side of the Falls. I remember this Mummy very well...it had a redish tint to the hair and it was clearly identified and labeled as Rameses I even back then.
Doug
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Regan Inner circle U.S.A. 5726 Posts |
Creepy stuff Doug.
Regan
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On 2006-01-24 17:57, Doug Higley wrote: That's interesting. In the documentary, from what I recall, there were photos of the mummy with a made-up name (which was common at the time, apparently). I don't think the documentary mentioned it ever having been labelled as Rameses. |
Doug Higley 1942 - 2022 7152 Posts |
Yep. I wish I still had the old photos and the brochures...I remember talking about this to the curator of Egyptology at The American Museum Of Natural History in NY when I was in high school. (I used to cut school constantly and hang out at the AMONH) I had showed him the stuff I had from the Niagra Museum and he was going to make a trip up to see the Mummies. Of course that was a bazillion years ago so don't know if he did or not.
Anyway...it was certainly NOT a made up name in the old days at the Niagra Museum. At the time I did a lot of self imposed study of Egyptology and this mummy was a big deal to me at the time. Whatever...no matter...he's home. Whoopie doo.
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Strange destiny for a Pharao...
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