The plan illustrates the topographical relations in connection with the archaeological aim of this work.
Plan of Ancon and neighbouring Necropolis.
Category: Latin America
Mexican feather head-dresses and the mode of wearing them.
Illustrations of ancient Mexican feather head-dresses and of the mode of wearing them taken from native Manuscripts.
Landing in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Historical travelogue.
Historical travelogue by Emeric Essex Vidal and Rudolph Ackermann.
THE story of Catalina de Erauso. The fighting nun.
Catalina de Erauso alias Francisco Loyola who became famous as a soldier, was a Basque noblewoman who lived as a man for several decades (“The nun lieutenant”).
Anne Bonny and Mary Read. Women pirates. The Golde Age of piracy.
THE life of a pirate on the high seas was hardly likely to attract even the most adventurous woman, yet according to records left by Captain Charles Johnson there were at least two who followed that calling, dressed in sailors’ clothes, and who lived and fought in desperate frays in the early eighteenth century.
Indigenous of Chapultepec. Around Mexico City 1840.
Mexique No.15, AMÉRIQUE INDIEN DE CHAPULTEPEC (Environs de Mexico). Musée cosmopolite No. 249.
Argentinean landlord. Estanciero. Ġaucho Proprietre 1839.
Ġaucho Proprietre, Province de la Plata
Host of a Black bar in the north of Brazil
Host of a Black bar in the north of Brazil
A Vanishing Figure. An Argentine Gaucho 1915.
A Gaucho wearing the chiripá, or loose over-trousers, and carrying the bolas around his waist.
Peru 1821. Females of Lima.
Peru 1821. Females of Lima. Historic costumes. Lima is the capital of the South American Andean state of Peru. Lima is located on the Río Rímac at the foot of… Read More