Walter M. Koch photographs of Orongo petroglyphs on Easter Island
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 2001-12
name: label: Creator
content: Koch, Walter M.
place: label: Place
content: Orongo Site (Easter Island)
topic: label: Topic
content: Petroglyphs
creator: label: Creator
content: Koch, Walter M.
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Walter M. Koch was a Chilean dentist and amateur photographer of 1970s Orongo.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 234 Prints (silver gelatin)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1970s
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated as part of the Robert Alexander collection to the John Wesley Powell Library of Anthropology (National Museum of Natural History) in 1985. Transferred to the National Anthropological Archives with the Charles Love Easter Island slides.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.2001-12
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Images of petroglyphs in Mata Ngarau, a sacred site at Orongo on Easter Island. The photographs are mounted on pages that have been removed from a three-ring binder with "Los Petroglifos de Mata Ngarau Orongo" and "Walter Koch M." handwritten on the front. A map of the Mata Ngarau section and a key to where photographs were made is also available with the collection.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional photographs of Orongo petroglyphs held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 97.