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Four Guatemalan Textiles: Persisting Global Networks
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Published:June 2021
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Abstract
This chapter focuses on the man who created an impressive collection of more than 1,300 Guatemalan textiles: Carlos W. Elmenhorst. A small metal box sits proudly today in the MARKK: Museum am Rothenbaum: World Cultures and Arts (formerly the Hamburgisches Museum für Völkerkunde). The chapter then explores how Adolf Bastian engaged in keen competition with other German and non-German museums. It reveals how the institutions and the ethnologists in them exchanged doubles from their collections, trained and employed one another's assistants, and launched jointly sponsored expeditions to Africa, Asia, South America, the South Seas and other parts of the world that were underrepresented in their collections. Examining the German communities in Guatemala, the chapter offers a fantastic example of the persistent networks that animated German archaeology and ethnology for more than a century. It provides us with an ideal opportunity to go deep into those kinds of networks to see how they took shape and persisted over time. Understanding that process, the chapter then explains why so many objects and collections ended up in German museums, and why they continued to flow into German museums long after the heyday of German colonialism and empire.
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