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LL/89827
Bennett Greig
1938
Huanuco Pampa, an Inca administrative centre located on the flat, high plain above the Urqumayu River about 12km from the modern town of La Union and 150km from Huanuco.

Gelatin silver print
British Museum
Museum number: Am,B53.80
 
The photograph shows the ushnu platform which sits in the exact centre of a vast, open plaza some 550x350 metres, on 2 low platforms which are visible below the walls just below the centre of the photograph.
 
(Alan Griffiths, 17 March 2019) Part of a series of photographs of Inca archaeological sites taken in Peru by Bennett Greig.
 
"Bennett Greig was a British diplomat and archaeologist who served as Honorary Attaché at the British Embassy in Lima (Peru) for eight years in the 1930s. Bennett donated a collection of Peruvian pottery to the British Museum in 1939."
Bennett Greig (Biographical details), British Museum
 
LL/89827


 

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