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Object Number 2013.1.28.137
Display Title Constructing a house
Descriptions
Object Description Written on photograph: "[verso] Lacandone Indians of Bonampak area build a house / Photograph by: Giles Greville Healey / United Fruit-Carnegie Institution Bonampak Expedition 1947 / Courtesy: Peabody Museum"
Department Photographic
Date 1946-1947
Culture
  • Lacandón Maya
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America / Mexico / Chiapas / <County> / <City> / Bonampak
Dimensions Overall: 20.32 × 25.4001 cm (8 × 10 in.)
Quantity 1
Provenance
Previous owner Previously owned by United Fruit Company

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