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Moche archive

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks
Collection Identifier: PH.PC.001
Scope and Contents: Christopher B. Donnan created the Moche Archive as a graduate student and, over a period of almost 50 years, developed it into a major research collection. This archive documents the art and iconography of the Moche, an ancient South American culture that inhabited river valleys in the arid coastal plain of northern Peru ca. 100-850 CE. Comprised of two (2) subgroups, the Moche Archive consists of various types of photographic material and fineline drawings. The bulk of its subject matter...