[From the Original 1927 Catalog] This group situated in the line of buildings which are closest to the seas, is, as one is able to see by the panoramic view, located between the Rivero and Chaiuak groups. The former to the northwest and the latter to the east by southeast. It is in the form of a square. It is less extensive than that of Uhle and is surrounded by a high wall. It has no walled subdivisions such as are found in the Uhle group. The archaeologist Tschudi who studied it and left a plan of it worked in conjunction with Rivero. It has many interesting works, as may be seen in the photographs. The principal ones are: a walled square containing many huge chambers which traditionally at least, has received the name of "The Prisons"; a very deep well; a gallery with decorated walls and a series of buildings with walls decorated with lozenges and broken squares. The work immediately adjoining it is also sufficiently complicated for at the outer angle of the square is located a stone work with a foundation amply made of slag rocks. The exterior view of the entire group was taken from the southern angle of the Cabildo group. The northeast and northwest walls of the outer enclosure are visible. In the foreground are the remains of some of the common houses, according to the beliefs of the archaeologists.
P08715-P08736, N36295-N36296
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Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Major Otto Holstein photographs from Chan Chan, Peru, Item Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
[From the Original 1927 Catalog] This group is much larger than the foregoing one and is not far from it. A narrow street some three meters wide runs between the northeast wall of the Uhle group and the southwest wall of Bandelier. It is entirely surrounded by a high wall which encloses the ruins in a square. This is also divided into many walled apartments. Those enclosed are the oldest and best preserved of the works. It is in one of these divisions that houses have been found preserving their original form. Also herein is preserved a field showing ancient cultivated furrows. This is not known to the tourists or the curiosity seekers. In front of its southwest wall within a space of 200 meters or more rise this Chaiuak and Tschudi groups. Between the southwest wall of the Uhle group and the northeast wall of Chaiuak are many ruins; wells, remains of villages, small enclosures, and platforms of artificial nature; but all are in a bad state of preservation.
P08689-P08710, N36282-N36288, N36290
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Collection Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiphotos@si.edu. For personal or classroom use, users are invited to download, print, photocopy, and distribute the images that are available online without prior written permission, provided that the files are not modified in any way, the Smithsonian Institution copyright notice (where applicable) is included, and the source of the image is identified as the National Museum of the American Indian. For more information please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use and NMAI Archive Center's Digital Image request website.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Major Otto Holstein photographs from Chan Chan, Peru, Item Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
