

This project combines two large-scale research initiatives that aim to study the object biography and cultural context of several Late Postclassic (1300-1521 AD) Mixtec artefacts from Mexico.
Turbulent Lives, Material and Cultural Biographies of Mixtec Artefacts sheds light on the turbulent life that Mesoamerican prehispanic material culture leads, as it is excavated, looted and/or traded out of its original contexts to museum collections worldwide.
One project focuses on the prehispanic Mexican Codex Añute/Selden, which is housed at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. This project has three principal aims:
The second project studies a supposedly Mixtec mosaic-decorated human skull from the collections of Museum Volkenkunde. The aims of the project are:
The first project is funded by NWO’s Science4Arts program. The second project was funded by the EC’s FP7 CHARSIMA programme and by a fellowship from Harvard University’s Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection.