Marianne Cardale de Schrimpff

Marianne Vere Cardale de Schrimpff is a Colombian anthropologist, archaeologist, academic and writer.

Schrimpff has written about the Herrera Period, the Muisca people and their salt production in the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes and about textiles in different parts of the country.

[1] Cardale de Schrimpff has worked with other Muisca scholars and archaeologists in Colombia, including Sylvia Broadbent, Gonzalo Correal Urrego, Ana María Groot, and Leonor Herrera.

Cardale de Schrimpff speaks English, Spanish, French and German.

[4] Cardale de Schrimpff has published many books and articles about the Calima, Muisca,[5] Panche,[6] and other indigenous groups of Colombia, in Spanish and English.

Mask of the Calima culture, extensively investigated by Cardale de Schrimpff