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Sintich Brothers: Entrance to Ancient Ruins at Tiwanaku, Bolivia

Sintich Brothers (active 1890s). Entrance to Ancient Ruins at Tiwanaku, Bolivia, 1903. From Mission scientifique française en Amérique du sud: travaux et fouilles de Tiahuanaco 1903 (Paris: Mission scientifique francaise, circa 1904). Brooklyn Museum Libraries, Special Collecitons

This image is from an album of sixty-one photographs published as the result of a French government expedition to Bolivia. The photographs record the archaeological work that took place there and document how a major pre-Columbian site appeared at the turn of the century. The photographs were taken by Hermanos Sintich, two brothers based in La Paz who had specialized in producing cabinet cards of portraits of Bolivians.

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