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Title: Chinchorro Mummies
Identifier: e_ef_0262
Creator: Ferorelli, Enrico
Dates: 1993-12
Box: 2015-239/79
Folder: Chinchorro Mummies/Chile, Set D-148, for National Geographic, March 1995
Resource: Enrico Ferorelli photographic archive
Description: National Geographic (March 1995) caption reads, "Framed by whale bones that mark their burial plot 5,000 years ago, two adult and two infant mummies await genetic tests, which will determine their relationship." (Photographed at the Archaeological Museum of San Miguel De Azapa)

Title: Chinchorro Mummies
Identifier: e_ef_0265
Creator: Ferorelli, Enrico
Dates: 1993-12
Box: 2015-239/79
Folder: Chinchorro Mummies/Chile, Set D-148, for National Geographic, March 1995
Resource: Enrico Ferorelli photographic archive
Description: National Geographic (March 1995) caption reads, "Cracking a 5,000-year-old grin, a black-period mummy shows what it's made of: bones, cord, ash paste, skin, paint, and wig. Chinchorro mummies are still rising from Chileís sands, in a fragile yet enduring bid for immortality." (Photographed at Museum of Natural History, ValparaÌso)

Title: Chinchorro Mummies
Identifier: e_ef_0266
Creator: Ferorelli, Enrico
Dates: 1993-12
Box: 2015-239/79
Folder: Chinchorro Mummies/Chile, Set D-148, for National Geographic, March 1995
Resource: Enrico Ferorelli photographic archive
Description: National Geographic (March 1995) caption reads, "A fishermanís dog dug up a thousand-year-old corpse near Camarones Cove; his master posed it like a macabre sun worshiper. By the time this individual died, the Chinchorro had long since abandoned mummification. Instead the climate, the world's driest, preserved the body, hair, and clothing, along with human bones from countless other burials along the shore."

Title: Chinchorro Mummies
Identifier: e_ef_0260
Creator: Ferorelli, Enrico
Dates: 1993-12
Box: 2015-239/79
Folder: Chinchorro Mummies/Chile, Set D-148, for National Geographic, March 1995
Resource: Enrico Ferorelli photographic archive
Description: National Geographic (March 1995) caption reads, "Lying on his reed burial mat, a young boyís body is stuffed with earth and covered with an ash paste, his skull topped with a wig of human hair. Such methods have preserved crumbling shadows of a vanished people." (Photographed at the Archaeological Museum of San Miguel De Azapa)

Title: Chinchorro Mummies
Identifier: e_ef_0263
Creator: Ferorelli, Enrico
Dates: 1993-12
Box: 2015-239/79
Folder: Chinchorro Mummies/Chile, Set D-148, for National Geographic, March 1995
Resource: Enrico Ferorelli photographic archive
Description: National Geographic (March 1995) caption reads, "An earlier black-period mummy of a child is held straight by a long stick that emerges from the head." (Photographed at Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art, Santiago)

Title: Chinchorro Mummies
Identifier: e_ef_0261
Creator: Ferorelli, Enrico
Dates: 1993-12
Box: 2015-239/79
Folder: Chinchorro Mummies/Chile, Set D-148, for National Geographic, March 1995
Resource: Enrico Ferorelli photographic archive
Description: Photograph of a 5,000-year-old Chinchorro mummy with painted mask housed at the Archaeological Museum of San Miguel De Azapa

Title: Chinchorro Mummies
Identifier: e_ef_0264
Creator: Ferorelli, Enrico
Dates: 1993-12
Box: 2015-239/79
Folder: Chinchorro Mummies/Chile, Set D-148, for National Geographic, March 1995
Resource: Enrico Ferorelli photographic archive
Description: National Geographic (March 1995) caption reads, "Crumbling after decades in storage at a Santiago museum, mummies are repacked by curators."