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Open field covered in rubble, trees and hills in background
Open field covered in rubble, trees and hills in background
Object Number 59-50-20/74011.1.505
Display Title Open field covered in rubble, trees and hills in background
Descriptions
Object Description Written on cardboard: "View of Ruins from top of highest mound, Western Group,/looking east. Main Structure covered with trees in back-/ground./Copan, Honduras."
Department Photographic
Date 1884-1889
Artist Marshall H. Saville
Culture
  • Maya area styles and periods
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America / Honduras / Copan / <County> / Copan / Copan
Materials Print, black and white adhered to Cardboard
Dimensions Overall: 23.0188 × 30.0038 cm (9 1/16 × 11 13/16 in.)
Provenance
Donor Donated by American Antiquarian Society

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