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[The Temple of the Nuns, Chichen Itza]
Octavio Medellin, Octavio Medellín1938
Southern Methodist University Libraries Digital Collections
Dallas, United States
This photograph is from the album, ''Maya-Toltec Temples and Carvings, 1938'', which documents the 1938 trip to Mexico made by Octavio Medellin and his family. This album depicts numerous examples of Maya-Toltec carvings, murals, and architecture, taken by Octavio Medellin at both the Chichen Itza and Uxmal archeological sites.
Details
- Title: [The Temple of the Nuns, Chichen Itza]
- Creator: Medellin, Octavio
- Date Created: 1938
- Location: Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico
- Physical Dimensions: 1 photographic print: gelatin silver, part of 1 album; 21 x 25 cm on 36 x 61 cm
- Subject Keywords: Indians of Mexico; Indians of Central America; Mayas; Maya architecture; Temples, Mayan; Mayans; Mesoamerica; Pre-Columbian, Mesoamerican architecture
- Publisher: SMU Libraries
- Rights: This item is protected by copyright law. Please cite Bywaters Special Collections, Southern Methodist University when using this file. For more information contact bywatersspecialcollections@smu.edu.
- External Link: http://digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/med/id/3911
- Series: Maya-Toltec Temples and Carvings, 1938; Artwork of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas; Travels to Mexico; Chichen Itza; Temple of the Nuns
- Holding Library: Bywaters Special Collections; Hamon Arts Library
- Form/Genre: Photograph albums; Photographs; Photographic prints; Gelatin silver prints
- Artist's Birth Date/Death Date: 1907-1999
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