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Image / Drawing water in Maya village, Quintana Roo, Mexico, ca. 1947

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Title
Drawing water in Maya village, Quintana Roo, Mexico, ca. 1947
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1947
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information
Maryknoll Mission Archives
Maryknoll Mission Archives, P.O. Box 305, Maryknoll, N.Y. 10545-0305; http://maryknollmissionarchives.org/
archives@maryknoll.org ; http://maryknollmissionarchives.org/?page_id=1669
http://maryknollmissionarchives.org/?page_id=17
http://maryknollmissionarchives.org/?page_id=1917 ; Maryknoll Mission Archives.
Description
Photograph of two women "drawing water in Maya village." The woman on the left stands on the edge of the well adjusting the pully system suspended over the well by a wood cross beam. On the ground next to her is a bucket. The woman on the right holds a rope. Four coils of rope sit on the edge of the well.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : b&w
6.5 x 9.5 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-m64124 [Legacy record ID]
MFB-Mexico-Women-007
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m64124
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/MFB-Mexico-Women-007.jpg
Subject
Women
Wells
General views
Time Period
circa 1947
Place
North and Central America
Quintana Roo
nation: Mexico
Source
MFB/Mexico/Women/007 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Maryknoll Mission Archives
Photographs of the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America, Maryknoll, New York, 1912-1945
impa-m338

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