La intensificación de la búsqueda de momias guanches en Tenerife durante la segunda mitad del siglo xix. La Camellita, Hoya Brunco, Araya, Agua de Dios, Escobonal, Ajabo, Martiánez, Teno, Anaga, San Andrés y barranco de Santos (1850-1899)

Abstract

The second half of the 19th century was the time with the highest number of mummy finds on the island of Tenerife, with a minimum of 25 individuals. Part of the findings were due to chance finds, some of them sent to the Royal Academy of History and the National Archaeological Museum in Madrid or deposited in the Casilda collection on Tacoronte, but in three cases they were commissions for foreign museums, as happened in Araya (1862), San Andrés (1890) and ravine of Santos (1892). A novelty was the demand from Canarian collectors who had emigrated to America, which ended up propitiate the departure of 3 mummies from the Casilda collection for Argentina and another for Cuba.