Mummified Crocodile Hatchling

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Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Mummified Crocodile Hatchling
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Datedate unknown
MediumAnimal remains wrapped with linen and mummification material
DimensionsOverall: 9 in. (22.9 cm)
Credit LineHamilton College Collection
Object numberINV.625
Not on view
DescriptionMummified crocodile hatchling. Linen wrapping has detached, revealing back legs.

Additional Details

Alternate Titles Crocodile Mummy
Exhibition History 2011
Clinton, NY. Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College. "Learning to Look: Hamilton's Cabinets, Galleries and Museums Past, Present and Future," September 15 - December 16, 2011 (no cat.).
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Amelia Blanford Edwards
Date: 400 B.C.E.-150 C.E., excavated 1888
Medium: Linen
Object number: S2024.6.1a-c
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Amelia Blanford Edwards
Date: 400 B.C.E.-150 C.E., excavated 1888
Medium: Linen
Object number: S2024.6.8
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Date: 16th-17th century
Medium: Gold-wrapped silk
Object number: S2024.5.9
Photo by John Bentham.
George Catlin
Date: 1845
Medium: Hand-colored lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.127
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Unknown artist, Spanish or Italian
Date: 18th century
Medium: Silk, linen
Object number: S2024.5.24
Chess piece
Unknown artist
Date: 9th-10th century C.E.
Medium: Carved animal bone
Object number: 2023.10.92
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Date: 1789-1925
Medium: Tinned copper, linen
Object number: 2023.10.66a-b
installation shot from Wellin Collects, 2015
Michael Cherney
Date: 2005
Medium: Double-sided album of UltraChrome pigment ink prints on paper within rosewood covers, in a linen-covered clamshell case
Object number: 2015.5
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Amelia Blanford Edwards
Date: 400 B.C.E.-150 C.E., excavated 1888
Medium: Linen
Object number: S2024.6.2
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Amelia Blanford Edwards
Date: 400 B.C.E.-150 C.E., excavated 1888
Medium: Linen
Object number: S2024.6.3
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Amelia Blanford Edwards
Date: 400 B.C.E.-150 C.E., excavated 1888
Medium: Linen
Object number: S2024.6.6a-d
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Amelia Blanford Edwards
Date: 400 B.C.E.-150 C.E., excavated 1888
Medium: Linen
Object number: S2024.6.7