IDNO

LS.71127.BUR

Description

Detail of drystone temple wall at Great Zimbabwe with opening constructed within the full height of the wall.

Place

S Africa; Zimbabwe; Great Zimbabwe [Rhodesia]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Burkitt, Miles Crawford; or Burkitt, Margaret

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/.

On album page with P.27502.BUR, P.27503.BUR, P.27504.BUR.

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 Grant Program Two. [Sarah Worden 28/11/2006]