The Man Who Invented Aztec Crystal Skulls. Jane MacLaren Walsh

      First published in 2019 by

      Berghahn Books

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      © 2019, 2020 Jane MacLaren Walsh and Brett Topping

      First paperback edition published in 2020

      All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purposes of criticism and review, no part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without written permission of the publisher.

       Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Walsh, Jane MacLaren, author. | Topping, Brett, 1947- author.

      Title: The Man Who Invented Aztec Crystal Skulls: The Adventures of Eugène Boban / Jane MacLaren Walsh and Brett Topping.

      Other titles: Adventures of Eugène Boban

      Description: First edition. | New York: Berghahn Books, [2019] | Includes bibliographical references.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2018047588 (print) | LCCN 2018048818 (ebook) | ISBN 9781789200966 (ebook) | ISBN 9781789200959 (hardback: alk. paper)

      Subjects: LCSH: Boban, Eugène. | Archaeologists--Biography. | Crystal skulls--History. | French--Mexico--Biography. | Mexico--Antiquities--Forgeries. | Swindlers and swindling--Biography. | Art dealers--Biography. | Archaeology--Latin America--Miscellanea. | Latin America--Antiquities--Collectors and collecting--History.

      Classification: LCC CC115.B59 (ebook) | LCC CC115.B59 W35 2019 (print) | DDC 930.1092 [B] --dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018047588

       British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

      ISBN 978-1-78920-095-9 hardback

      ISBN 978-1-78920-478-0 paperback

      ISBN 978-1-78920-096-6 ebook

      CONTENTS

       LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

       ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

       AUTHORS’ NOTE

       LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

       INTRODUCTION: ON THE TRAIL OF CRYSTAL SKULLS

       1 CAVEAT EMPTOR

       2 BETWEEN OLD WORLD AND NEW

       3 MEXICO: ANCIENT TO MODERN

       4 MEXICO AT MID-CENTURY

       5 THE EMPEROR’S ANTIQUARIAN: A COLLECTION TAKES SHAPE

       6 CONFRONTING A DIFFERENT PARIS

       7 MARKETING A COLLECTION

       8 A PREMIER COLLECTION

       9 NARRATIVES OF PROVENANCE

       10 THE RUE DU SOMMERARD DECADE

       11 OF FAKES AND FAKERS

       12 FROM STUDENT TO TEACHER: DEALER TO CURATOR

       13 GOOD DEALS AND BAD

       14 BACK IN BUSINESS

       15 FINGERPRINTS ON CRYSTAL SKULLS

       16 COURTING THE SMITHSONIAN

       17 OF FAKES, FORGERS, AND FRAUDS

       18 “EL TOCAYO’S” TRIUMPH

       19 LATER LIFE

       20 AFTERLIFE

       EPILOGUE

       REFERENCES

       INDEX

      ILLUSTRATIONS

      0.1. Smithsonian crystal skull. Photo by James Diloreto (National Museum of Natural History, Department of Anthropology, 562841).

      1.1. Duvergé sisters’ invoice (courtesy of Sylvain Bertoldi, Archives municipales d’Angers, 1 Num. 15).

      3.1. Coatlicue monolith just behind the Tizoc stone in the patio of the Museo Nacional de México. Photo by William Henry Jackson (Smithsonian Institution, National Anthropological Archives).

      3.2. Artifacts from Oaxaca drawn by José Luciano Castañeda (Smithsonian Libraries).

      3.3. Stone mask and ceramic figurines in the Poinsett Collection drawn by Maximilien Franck (courtesy of the British Museum, London, AM2006, Drg. 128, pg. 21).

      4.1. The vegetable market on canoes along the Viga Canal, ca. 1860 (Smithsonian Institution Archives, Nelson-Goldman Collection, RU 7364).

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