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Totorore expedition transparencies
- Date
- [ca Jul-Dec 1983]
- Reference
- PA12-11155
- Description
Colour transparencies of birdlife, sailing, and local scenes taken by James (Jim) Watt in Chile during the Totorore expedition and on his travels after he left the expedition, circa Jul-Dec 1983.
Set includes images of birds including oystercatchers ( "black ater", "brown and white American palliatus", "Feugian leucopodus black and white"), turkey vultures "Gallinazo", black vultures (Valdivia), a Peruvian pelican (Valparaiso), pelicans and piqueros [boobies?] in flight, and kelp geese. Local scenes show Santiago (including high rises, view from [Santa Lucia?] hill, and a street market), unidentified ruins of a [fortification?], a gun emplacement, a street scene in Valparaiso, Nuhuel Island, Andes seen from the sea, the wreck of the 'Lord Londsdale' (Punta Arenas), Valdivia corral, and Calbuco Island settlement. Also includes nautical chart from Chiloe Island to Puerto Montt.
Inscriptions: Note from depositor reads: "'Totorore' this series from a carousel Jim used for presentations - to raise money for expedition - final series."
Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies.
Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Curator required
- Part of
- Watt, James Norwood, 1928-2018: Collection / Birdwatching and sailing expeditions in Chile, New Zealand, and Auckland and Antipodes Islands
- Format
- 24 colour original transparency/ies, Transparencies, Landscape photographs, Dye coupler transparencies
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