Mummy Museums

Last Updated 10 June 2007

 

United States Museums: Arizona

Tucson: The Arizona State Museum once featured an exhibit that contained native American mummies, but that was back in the days when many people failed to realize the need to respect the recent dead (most native American mummies died 500 years ago or less). Those mummies have fortunately now been repatriated to tribes in Arizona. The museum has excellent, thoughtful displays and still exhibits two mummies--they are puppies, found in the same dry caves where native Americans sometimes buried their dead. The museum features an exhibit on early peoples (especially from the southwest), and includes a few skeletal finds of mammoths complete with spear points (now replicas) still embedded in one section of rib cage (apparently early people ganged up on the mammoth and repeatedly thrust their points into the area to make sure they killed their prey).

 

 

 

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