photographic print(black and white)
- Museum number
- Am,B53.61
- Description
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Photograph taken at Tambo Colorado in the Pisco Valley on the southern coast of Peru showing a view of the front of the ruins immediately north of the great trapezoidal plaza. Trapezoidal niches in the adobe walls are shown, which bear traces of paint used according to a diagram on the back of the photograph.
- Production date
- 1938
- Dimensions
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Height: 17.60 centimetres
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Width: 23.20 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Part of a set of photographs by Bennet Greig associated with several envelopes, one bearing the writing: "Peru Arch. photographs given by Bennet Greig, Esq. 1938. Ollantaytambo, Tampu Machay, Pisac, Cuzco region", and the other: "Peru Arch. Peru. Photographs by B. Greig. Cuzco and neighbourhood. Pisac, Ollantaytambo, Silustani."
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition notes
- Photographs presented by Mr Bennet Greig of Lima, Peru 1938 and 1939.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am,B53.61