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Harvard, USA
Peabody Museum
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard
University
Harvard University
11 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
USA
Tel.: (617) 496-1027
Fax: (617) 495-7535
E-mail: peabody@fas.harvard.edu
http://www.peabody.harvard.edu
The Peabody Museum at Harvard is closely affiliated with the
Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford Street,
Cambridge, MA 02138
USA
Tel: (617) 495-3045
Fax: (617) 496-8206
E-mail: hmnh@oeb.harvard.edu
Founded in 1866, the Peabody Museum is one of the oldest museums in the world devoted to anthropology and houses one of the most comprehensive records of human cultural history in the Americas.
In 1927 the Peabody Museum acquired 156 Andamanese items through the commercial dealer Umlauff from the Völkerkundliches Institut und Museum, Hamburg, Germany. The provenance of these items is not clear but they are most likely to come from Egon v. Eickstedt who led several India expeditions in the 1920s.
On http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/col/shortDisplay.cfm?StartRow=1 a short selection of Andamanese items at the Peabody Museum can be viewed. The collection has much duplication and contains a pig skull, wooden buckets, baskets, bark belts, shells, stone tools, sleeping mats, fish spears, arrows, etc.
No complete list of Andamanese items held by the two Museums is available.
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