ART on view nancial help for maintaining some of the mummies, Rockefeller was given four bundles, which he brought back to New York. The ancient mummy bundles consisted 90 of many layers of cloth, some plain shroud-like textiles and others beautifully embroidered garments, that wrapped around the seated figures of the deceased. The amazing size, extraordinary color, and intricate imagery of the Paracas textiles were such that Rockefeller intended to give the bundles to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a museum of which he was then a trustee. Unfortunately, as the Metropolitan then had no curator of South American archaeology, the bundles instead went to the American Museum of Natural History. Rockefeller’s interest in Latin America continued. In 1939, he began purchasing modest groups of Precolumbian objects such as the Nazca ceramic vessels he acquired in Buenos Aires, Argentina (fig. 18). While pres- FIG. 18: Bowl. Nazca area, southern Peru. 1st century BCE–4th century CE. Ceramic. D: 16.5 cm. Purchased by Nelson Rockefeller in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1939. The Michael C. Rockefeller Collection, Bequest of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1979. 1979.206.110. FIGS. 19 and 20: Installation views of Primitive Sculpture from the Collection of Nelson A. Rockefeller at the Century Association on East 43rd Street in Manhattan in 1953. From the unpublished catalogue of the exhibition. The Robert Goldwater Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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