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Object Number
2013.1.28.139
Display Title
Women grind corn and make tortillas
Descriptions
Object Description
Written on photograph: "[verso] Lacandone wives grind corn and make / tortillas of native corn or maize / Photograph by: Giles Greville Healey / United Fruit-Carnegie Institution Bonampak Expedition 1947 / Courtesy: Peabody Museum / N32023"
Department
Photographic
Date
1946-1947
Culture
- Lacandón Maya
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America
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Mexico
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Chiapas
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<County>
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<City>
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Bonampak
Materials
Print, black and white
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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