Cornell University Library Digital Collections
Copacabana, Orca del Inca
- Title:
- Copacabana, Orca del Inca
- Collection:
- Billie Jean Isbell Andean Collection
- Set:
- Zenith sun series
- Date:
- 1992
- Location:
- Copacabana (Manco Kapac, Bolivia)
Titicaca Lake Region (Peru and Bolivia)
- ID Number:
- ISB_00580
- File Name:
- ISB_00580.jpg
- Culture:
- Quechua
- Subject:
- Inka astronomy
Inca astronomy and archaeology
Archaeological sites
Inca astronomy
Inka observations of the zenith passage of the sun
- Image View Description:
- View of Copacabana, Orca del Inca
- Description:
- The lintel between the two stones. A ray of light is visible. On the morning of the June Solstice the light is cast directly on the lintel.
- Bibliography:
- Isbell, Billie Jean. "Culture Confronts Nature in the Dialectical World of the Tropics." In Ethno-Astronomy and Archaeo-Astronomy in the American Tropics, edited by A. F. Aveni and G. Urton. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 385 (1982): 353-363.
URL: http://dspace.library.cornell.edu/handle/1813/2193
: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/2193
Billie Jean Isbell Andean Collection, Images from the Andes: Collection Highlights: Zenith: http://resolver.library.cornell.edu/collection/Isbell/zenith
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Series:
- Zenith sun series : 162
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- This digital collection and its contents are owned and operated by the Cornell University Library. Digital reproductions are provided for private study, scholarship, and research use only and may not be downloaded for use in electronic or print publications (including websites), exhibitions or broadcasts, without permission.
