Portrait of PUM II – Black and White Transmission Hologram 1976 by Steve Benton (MIT) and Will Walter ( The Polaroid Corporation)
PORTRAIT OF PUM II is an historically important hologram and is an example of the first black and white transmission hologram. The portrait of a Mummy’s Skull was made as part of Smithsonian institute program to provide 3D copies of valuable artefacts in danger of decay.The hologram was produced by Stephen Benton and Will Walter at The Polaroid Corporation in 1976. Only 4 are known to exist.
PUM II is an acronym for Pennsylvania University Museum II. The area of Egypt from which the mummy comes is unknown. He came to America by way of John T. Morris, a wealthy Philadelphian who then donated him to the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA). Known as PUM II because he was the second mummy to be acquired by the institution, radiographic and xerographic exams were done at the Mt. Carmel Mercy and Hutzel hospitals. Following the autopsy, he was sent to be on exhibit at the Museum of Natural History in Washington DC, on loan to the Smithsonian Institution.
The hologram “PORTRAIT OF PUM II” was recorded in April 1976 by Will Walker, Polaroid Research Labs. It was included in Museum of Holography’s exhibition in New York: “Through the Looking Glass,” Dec 8, 1976 – Febr. 27, 1977.
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