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Archives Photo of the Week


September 20, 2013

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Excavation at Tikal, Guatemala, 1962
Penn Museum Image #148801

This week’s photo features an image from the Penn Museum’s excavations at Tikal in Guatemala. William Coe, former curator of the American Section at the museum, captured the excavation of an upside-down face sculpture in Structure 34 of the North Acropolis at Tikal. This image is featured in Archivist Alessandro Pezzati’s book Adventures in Photography: Expeditions of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology