IDNO

LS.70481.BUR

Description

Miles Burkitt pointing to Bantu pottery below the outside drystone wall of the Zimbabwe Acropolis.

Place

S Africa; Zimbabwe; Great Zimbabwe [Rhodesia]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Miles Crawford Burkitt

Photographer

Member of Burkitt expedition team

Collector / Expedition

Burkitt, Miles Crawford

Date

1927

Collection Name

Burkitt CollectionTeaching Slide Collection

Source

Burkitt, Miles Crawford

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

The lantern slide was in wooden box formerly numbered 139 now numbered C318/.

Place: The Monomotapa Empire, centered on its capital city of Zimbabwe flourished between AD 400 -1400. The great Zimbabwe ruins about 110 miles from Harare consists of an acropolis on top of a 60 metre high granite hill which housed the priestly class of the Mwari and a great trading enclosure.
[Source: www.britannica.com [SW 11/12/2006]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Getty Grant Program Two. [Sarah Worden 28/11/2006]