Bohumír Menzel: Another Influence on the Beginning of the Czech Mass Immigration to Texas? Lukáš Perutka This article aims to present the relatively unknown personality of Bohumir (Gottfried) Menzel (1798–1879) and connect his writings to the beginning of the Czech mass immigration to Texas. Adopting the thematic and discourse analyses, we can observe that his letters contain positive information on…
Mapuche Artifacts: The Václav Šolc and Olga Kandertová Collection in the Náprstek Museum Tereza Melicharová Václav Šolc (1919–1995) was an ethnographer and Americanist, a curator of American collections, and later a director of the Náprstek Museum of Asian, African and American Cultures in Prague. Over three journeys to the Mapuche on Huapi Island on Lake Budi in Araucania, Chile, between 1966 and 1971,…
Inventory of Rock Inscriptions from Naga el-Girgawi in the Náprstek Museum Pavel Onderka Following its participation in the UNESCO International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Lower Nubia, the Czechoslovak Institute of Egyptology received a donation of a share of finds acquired during its course by the Egyptian government. These objects are presently kept as a part of the collections…
A Coffin Fragment with Chapters 1 and 72 of the Book of the Dead in the Náprstek Museum Pavel Onderka, Jiří Honzl The Naprstek Museum of Asian, African and American Cultures keeps a small collection of fragments of ancient Egyptian qeresu-coffins dated to the Late Period (ca. 747–332 BCE), specifically the Twenty-fifth Dynasty (ca. 747–664 BCE). Five of the six pieces came from the Monthu priests’ burials at…
