Inca Mummy Bundle
Wrapped tightly in cotton cloth and accompanied by pottery, food and other socially significant material (and sometime with a detachable artificial head), Inca and pre-Inca mummy bundles represent a way not only to preserve the physical remains of the dead, but also to ensure their continued social presence. For many societies the living and the dead often have more to do with one another than we might presume from our own social norms.
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