Jan. 13, 1913: Relics of Expedition Await Transportation to Peabody Museum
Yale Yesterday
One hundred and thirty-six soiled and battered wooded cases containing the greater part of the collections made by the Yale Peruvian Expedition of 1912 were unloaded yesterday morning and carried into the basement of Welch Hall. Here they will be stored until arrangements can be made at the Peabody Museum and elsewhere for unpacking and studying the immense amount of ethnological and geological material they contain.
The bulk of the treasure is the plunder of the ancient graves on the slopes of the Andes, visited by the expedition.
It was said at the Peabody Museum that it...
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