Max Uhle and the Museo de Historia Nacional-Lima

A recent article by Teodoro Hampe Martinez (1998) sheds new lighton the origins of archaeology in Peru. Hampe has a continuing research interest in theorigins of historical institutions in Peru. One of the institutions that he has spentsome time documenting is the Museo de Historia Nacional, and especially its thearchaeologist who served as its first director, Max Uhle. or more properly Friedrich MaxUhle (1856- 1944). Hampe Maninez's most recent work includes materials not only from thearchives in Peru. but materials extracted from the unpublished diaries of Uhle kept inthe archives of the lbero-Amerikanisches Institut/Preussischer Kulturbesitz in Berlin,which Hampe visited in June of 1990 and December of 1994. Uhle transferred the bulk ofhis personal papers, including 170 diaries, over 2,000 photographs, and much of hispersonal correspondence, to this institute in 1933, three years after its founding in1930. Hampe has been collecting information from the unpublished sources relating toUhle's work in Peru from 1896 through 1912, although the current paper focuses mainlyupon the period of Uhle's tenure at the Museo de Historia Nacional, which is covered inUhle's diaries #76 through #93 at the Berlin archives. Hampe Martinez's studies in thispaper have materially added to the earlier works by Rowe (1954) and Linares Malaga(1964) on Uhle