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UNL graduate student Alan Kirkland studies an ancient Egyptian sarcophagus, which holds a
mummy. The sarcophagus now resides on top of a cabinet at Nebraska Hall because Kirkland
lacks the funds needed to preserve the mummy.
UNL student dreams of mummies
By Wendy Thomas
Staff Reporter
A poster of Indiana Jones hangs
over Alan Kirkland’s desk. Beside it
hangs a cloth bearing hieroglyphic
words and dancing Egyptians. To
Kirkland, a UNL graduate student, the
items symbolize his dream.
Kirkland, who studies Egyptology
in the Classics department at the Uni
versity of Nebraska-Lincoln, is re
searching several Egyptian artifacts
—including three mummies—which
were donated to the University of
Nebraska State Museum by Nebraska
collectors.
Although Kirkland has yet to visit
Egypt, he said the project was his own
personal crusade. Studying each arti
fact is an adventure, he said, a bit like
the adventures depicted in Indiana
Jones’ movies.
Kirkland’s dream is to turn his
project — termed the Egyptian Col
lection Research Project — into an
exhibit at Morrill Hall.
“The value is in being able to edu
cate people about the individual piece
and the culture that it comes from,”
Kirkland said.
Although Kirkland’sgoal isattain
able, he lacks the funds needed to
preserve the mummies. The univer
sity doesn’t give grants for graduate
research, he said.
“When I first tried to check into
[funding] at this university, I was sum
marily informed that they didn’t sup
port graduate student research, and
they didn’t encourage it either.
“I thought that was deplorable,”
Kirkland said.
Even without funding, Kirkland has
been studying the hundreds of arti
facts ranging from tiny amulets to
mummified cats for the last year.
He and his undergraduate anthro
pology assistant, Sarah Guthmann, fin
ished Phase I of the project during the
1994-95 school year. The first phase
concentrated on recording and ana
lyzing the portable objects.
The project’s first journal — out
lining their work, accomplishments
arid plans — came out in June.
Kirkland said Phase II will focus
on stabilizing the conditions of the
mummies and trying to identify when
and where they existed in Egypt, both
ofwhich will be difficult to do without
funding.
The humidity-free lateral cabinets,
which would effectively preserve the
mummies, cost about $3,500. And
when the mummies are ready to be
exhibited, Kirkland said, glass cabi
nets will need to be purchased.
Kirkland said he planned on mak
ing a public appeal to raise the money.
“After all, we are the custodians
and trustees for the public of Ne
braska,” he said. “If they want to pre
serve a treasure then we certainly are
more than happy to accept the help.”
Kirkland, who speaks several lan
guages and reads hieroglyphic writ
ing, said he would graduate in 1996.
By then, he hopes his research will be
displayed.
“But,” Kirkland said, “I will prob
ably never total ly divorce my sel f from
this collection for the rest of my life.”
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