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Photo Diary: San Diego Museum of Us and Cannibal Museum [1]
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Date: 2025-04-24
Yeah, there’s a combination ya don’t see often made …
The Museum of Us focuses on cultural anthropology, especially in Central America and Egypt. The Cannibal Museum focuses on, well, like the name says, cannibals. Actually, a bit differently than you might think—it does not focus on cannibals per se—it focuses more on the cultures that have been accused of cannibalism. Contrary to the silly scare-stories told by European colonialists, cannibalism in humans is actually a very very rare thing, and in most cases it is the result of either extremely dire emergency circumstances, or religious ritual. (Christians probably shouldn’t get too self-righteous about it … Remember that whole “this is my body, this is my blood” thingie … ?)
Anyway, the two museums have a mutual agreement where admission to one gets you into both. So, here are some photos from a visit.
The Museum of Us is housed in the California Tower, that was originally built for the 1915 Exposition which celebrated the opening of the Panama Canal. Lovely building.
Inside the museum
Examining the role of alcohol in human history
Moche pottery bottle
Maya effigy bottle
Egyptian drinking vessels
Tarahumara vessels for brewing and storing corn beer
Modern microbrewing equipment
Mayan stone pillar
Mayan pottery jar
An ocarina flute from Tikal, in the form of an armadillo
Basket from the California Kumeyaay natives
Kumeyaay artifacts
Egyptian coffin lid
A mummified falcon
A painting of the god Thoth
Hieroglyphs spelling out “Nefertiti”
The Cannibals Museum
Cannibalism in popular culture
Aztec offering bowl
Vanuatu arrow
Wooden mask used in the Kwakiutl “cannibal spirit” Hamatsa dance
Ancestor figure, Papua New Guinea
The Donner party
A game for the kids: extract the internal organs without touching the sides
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