page_title: Regional Museum of the National University of San Martin
section_title: Collections
hierarchical_section_title: Regional Museum of the National University of San Martin / Collections
caption_attribution_description: English: Picture of mummy from Shimbillo-Chazuta, Peru; Housed at the Museo Regional-UNSM.
context_page_description: The Regional Museum of the National University of San Martín in Tarapoto, is well known throughout Peru as having one of the premier ethnographic and archaeological collections related to the Peruvian Upper Amazon. The Museum is renowned for housing the famous 450-year-old Shimbillo-Chazuta mummy.
context_section_description: The museum currently houses more than 3,700 artifacts primarily from the Amazonas Region of Peru. This collection includes a replica of the Bello Horizonte Petroglyphs (Petroglifos de Polish), Prehispanic bronze and ceramic ware, numerous contemporary and ancient spindle whorls, a diverse collection of ethnographic objects from the "Chacarero" collection, and the famous 450-year-old "Mummy of Shimbillo".
  The Mummy of Shimbillo's modern blanket and sacred new clothing were made by a women's association of organic cotton weavers from the town of San Antonio del Rio Mayo, in Lamas Province. In December 2011, Warmi Awakuku in collaboration with the Anthropology Division (Museo Regional-UNSM/University of Kansas) ceremoniously re-wrapped the "Mummy of Shimbillo" in ornate woven cotton clothing (cushma), including a hood .
caption: Mummy found near Shimbillo-Chazuta, Peru.
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