Inca punishment stone, Cuzco, Peru – Historic Reproduction
![Inca punishment stone, Cuzco, Peru, [between 1940 and 1947] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/66/66920a706c2f-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Inca punishment stone, Cuzco, Peru, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Inca punishment stone, Cuzco, Peru
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A carved stone in Cuzco, Peru, gives this photograph its subject. The record identifies it as a punishment stone, a feature linked in local tradition and popular accounts to the Inca period, when the city was the capital of their empire. Cuzco's Inca masonry was later built over and around by Spanish colonizers after 1533, so such stones often sit amid colonial walls and streets. Photographers working in the 1940s frequently documented these remains as evidence of pre-Columbian craftsmanship. The attribution of the stone's use to punishment rests mainly on tradition, so historians treat it with some caution.
| Created / published | [between 1940 and 1947] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1940-1950. |
| Notes | Archive of Hispanic Culture. Ac. no. 660. |
| Subjects | Indians of South America--Peru--Cuzco--Antiquities & archaeological sites--1940-1950. Incas--Peru--Cuzco--Antiquities & archaeological sites--1940-1950. Punishment devices--Peru--Cuzco--1940-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,166 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-168720 |
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