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Carved Stone found in the Chincha Islands
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Staff, special artist correspondent
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The Illustrated Times, staff and correspondents
Title
Carved Stone found in the Chincha Islands
Description
English: The Bollaert slab, depicts the arms of a guano lord,, circa 1560. Unearthed from under 5 and a half metres of guano in 1847 on Isla Chincha Norte. See https://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/04139/excerpt/9781107004139_excerpt.pdf

Carved Stone found in the Chincha or Guano Islands of Peru

Illustration for The Illustrated Times, 5 March 1859.

This object is in the British Museum donated to it by Henry Hucks Gibbs in 1859.

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Perhaps originally owned by Don Pedro Guanneque. The stone is inscribed: don pedro guanneque prinsipal del valle de [c]hincha.
Date 5 March 1859
date QS:P571,+1859-03-05T00:00:00Z/11
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The Illustrated Times, 5 March 1859.

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