The Man Who Invented Aztec Crystal Skulls - Jane MacLaren Walsh, Brett Topping

The Man Who Invented Aztec Crystal Skulls

The Adventures of Eugène Boban
Buch | Softcover
348 Seiten
2020
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78920-478-0 (ISBN)
31,50 inkl. MwSt
Detailed are the travels, self-education, and archaeological explorations of Eugene Boban, an expert in the field of pre-Columbian studies and explores the circumstances that allowed him to sell fakes to museums that would remain undetected for over a century.
Eugène Boban began life in humble circumstances in Paris, traveled to the California Gold Rush, and later became a recognized authority on pre-Columbian cultures.  He also invented an entire category of archaeological artifact: the Aztec crystal skull. By his own admission, he successfully “palmed off” a number of these crystal skulls on the curators of Europe’s leading museums. How could that happen, and who was this man? Detailed are the travels, self-education, and archaeological explorations of Eugène Boban; this book also explores the circumstances that allowed him to sell fakes to museums that would remain undetected for over a century.

Jane MacLaren Walsh, anthropologist emerita at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, is an internationally recognized authority on crystal skulls and other fake pre-Columbian antiquities. Her most recent research combines geology and archaeology in a study of the iconic stone faces of Teotihuacan.

List of illustrations

Acknowledgments

Authors' Note

List of Abbreviations



Introduction: On the Trail of Crystal Skulls



Chapter 1. Caveat Emptor

Chapter 2. Between Old World and New

Chapter 3. Mexico: Ancient to Modern

Chapter 4. Mexico at Mid-Century

Chapter 5. The Emperor’s Antiquarian: A Collection Takes Shape

Chapter 6. Confronting a Different Paris

Chapter 7. Marketing a Collection

Chapter 8. A Premier Collection

Chapter 9. Narratives of Provenance

Chapter 10. The Rue du Sommerard Decade


Chapter 11. Of Fakes and Fakers

Chapter 12. From Student to Teacher: Dealer to Curator

Chapter 13. Good Deals and Bad

Chapter 14. Back in Business

Chapter 15. Fingerprints on Crystal Skulls

Chapter 16. Courting the Smithsonian

Chapter 17. Of Fakes, Forgers and Frauds

Chapter 18. “El Tocayo’s” Triumph

Chapter 19. Later Life

Chapter 20. Afterlife



Epilogue



References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater
Geisteswissenschaften Archäologie
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Hilfswissenschaften
ISBN-10 1-78920-478-X / 178920478X
ISBN-13 978-1-78920-478-0 / 9781789204780
Zustand Neuware
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