ART on view 84 Out of the Amazon: Life on the River History of a Museum Collection By Adam Mekler and Dirk Van Tuerenhout Authors’ note: This article contains a fi rstperson recounting of the origins and growth of the Amazon collection at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, written by Adam Mekler. Dirk Van Tuerenhout added information on lecture programs and future plans to make the collection available online. FIG. 1 (above): Man’s tunic, tari. Shipibo-Conibo, Ucayali River, Eastern Peru. 1940. Collected in Pucallpa, Peru, by Heinz Kusel. Cotton fi ber, mineral and plant pigments. H: 104 cm. Collection of the Houston Museum of Natural Science, inv. 2015.2141.115. Gift of Heinz Kusel to the Mekler Collection.
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