• Laura Gilpin (photographer)

Close-up view of a parapet in the Tzompantli [skull rack] showing relief carvings of skulls, Chichén Itzá Site, Yucatán, Mexico

1932 or 1946

- Labels attached to the verso of photographs PH1981:0217 - PH1981:0220 were removed at the time of conservation by David Kolody in June, 1983 (Kolody).

Gelatin silver print

comp.: 18.4 x 25.1 cm sheet: 20.2 x 25.3 cm

PH1981:0217

• close-up view
• exterior view

- The sheet is affixed to the CCA mount with three clear plastic corners on the u.r., l.l. and l.r.

labelled, imprinted and numbered - in typescript and black ink, on a paper label detached from the verso of the object: "A: PHOTOGRAPH / BY: LAURA GILPIN / TITLE:" with title / "copyright. / 362 / COLORADO: SPRINGS: COLORADO" [framed within black borders] labelled, imprinted and numbered - in typescript, black ink and pink pencil, on a paper label detached from the verso of the object: "FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE / MUSEUM OF THE / CRANBROOK ACADEMY OF ART / BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICHIGAN / 1955.353"

Chichén Itzá Site; Yucatán; Mexico;

• architecture
• sculpture

• ruins
• reliefs
• figures (representations)
• parapet

© Amon Carter Museum of American Art