Central and South America
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of 1,695 objects from Central and South America. These date from AD 50 to 2002. This collection is the second largest of its kind in Scotland. It includes pre-Columbian ceramics, textiles, workbaskets, tools, mummy wrappings, body ornaments, costume, stone carving and furniture. Notable items include two handmade ceramic figurines from the south coast of Peru that are dated to the Late Nasca period, and are the only complete figures of this period known to exist in any museum. The collection also contains contemporary objects, including ceramics, textiles, body ornaments, costume, furniture, tools, domestic artefacts, paintings, souvenirs, crafts, sculpture, photographs, masks, hunting equipment and musical instruments. Among this group are two unique Mexican works by noted artists, commissioned for the Gallery of Modern Art and the St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art, and a collection of photographic images by the renowned Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado. Glasgow’s most recent acquisition for this collection is a group of ten figures representing Orishas from the Afro-Cuban Santería religion, by the Havana artist Filiberto Mora.
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