Been thinking of an opera for Annie in Peru. Machu Picchu had been discovered by Bingham in 1911 (or by local Incan descants in 1902, and Curtis Farabee at Harvard drew maps which Bingham used. April 1913, National Geographic dedicates its entire issue to Machu Picchu,
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/machu-picchu-hiram-bingham
Farabee was sick after his travels, but went back to Peru in the must have een in the early 20s.
In 1922 Dr. Farabee returned to Peru for the museum, penetrating to a remote section, where the hardships of climate and travel were great. He was taken down by fever and nursed for a long time by an Indian tribe. An Indian messenger was sent to the coast for help, and a wealthy native friend of the scientist sent a small automobile into the mountains to get him out. They motored with the sick man down mountain trails and through jungles.
https://www.nytimes.com/1925/06/25/archives/farabee-famous-explorer-dead-40-blood-transfusions-fail-to-save.html
Farabee returned to Peru for the Penn Museum in 1922 and 1923
https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/william-farabee-martyr-to-science/
his wife wront from Ica that Farabee was "here very ill with inflammatory dysenteria. He took sick in the interior one hundred and fifty four miles away. As there was no physician he had to come here. He rode on horseback fifty-two miles the first day, then went to bed and sent for an automobile which arrived three days later. He has had an awful journey in a Ford car over the trail of the Pampa Huahuari to Ica a distance of one hundred miles where he arrived more dead than alive. Doctor says if he had been two days later he could not have saved his life.”
https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/william-farabee-martyr-to-science/
https://www.penn.museum/sites/journal/1325/
In 1922 the Museum sent am expedition to southern Peru and Dr, Farabee again took charge of the South American work. While conducting explorations in the Nasca country in the interior of southern Peru, he was attacked by fever and by inflammatory dysentery. Realizing the danger of his situation, he set out alone to reach the coast and to seek medial aid, He broke down completely on the way and the journey ended in an Indian’s hut where he was nursed by the native family until their messengers could reach the coast and bring the necessary aid to save his life. He was then carried to a hacienda where civilized comforts and scientific treatment and his own great physical strength restored him slowly to a semblance of health. To complete his cure, it was decided that he should go to Arequipa where the high mountain air would invigorate his exhausted system, The experiment was not entirely satisfactory in its results and he was taken to the island of Juan Fernandez. In spite of every effort, Dr. Farabee began to realize that he was no longer able to undergo the severe hardships that his projected explorations. entailed and after making a journey sarong the Araucanian Indians of Chile, he returned to Philadelphia by way of the Argentine and Rio Janeiro. arriving here in the spring of 1923.
https://www.penn.museum/sites/journal/1325/
Dr. Farabee combined the qualities of ripe scholarship with a magnetic personality, a kindly disposition and the buoyancy of youth. He won friends readily and held thorn firmly wherever he went. It is not easy to recall any man of science who was personally so well liked, who had so few enemies and so many friends.
https://www.penn.museum/sites/journal/1379/ describes his recuperation (hah!) at Arequipa, where he kept excavating
Returning to Arequipa for a few days on August 29th, Dr. Farabee proceeded again to the highlands on September 15th, this time to the romantic city of Cuzco, apparently with the purpose of making researches and excavations in this region. He remained in Cuzco until September 30th, much of the time living with Dr. A. A. Giesecke, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Rector of the University of Cuzco and sometime Mayor of the city.
Fifteen days of rest at Chosica not proving a high road to convalescence, Dr. Farabee went to the British-American Hospital in Callao for the week of July 12-18. From here he decided to carry out his long projected trip to Arequipa, a health resort of much higher altitude in southern Peru. They left on the 18th and reached Mollendo, the seaport, July 20th, Dr. Farabee “well, but thin and weak,” as he optimistically reports.
In the beautiful healthful region of Arequipa Dr. and Mrs. Farabee remained from July 20th until August 24th, recuperating under the shadow of the majestic snowcapped volcano “El Misti,” 19,200 feet high. Even in his weakened condition, his mind was constantly on his work and the objects of his expedition. In a letter of August 23rd he states that although thin and light he felt in good health and had been exploring the region for three weeks. The whole valley, he reports, was formerly occupied, and the terraces are used for house sites today. Regarding his excavations, I quote his report almost verbatim. This in 1922. There's a railroad from Mollendo to Arequipa
Use this as a starting point. https://www.penn.museum/sites/journal/1325/
Engel, 1957, mentions Farabee in terms of Pisco valley, neither Arequipa nor Machu Picchu
Farabee 1921 doesn't seem to have anything of interest to this, but talks about how archaeologists and historians are at loggerheads (duh)
Farabee 1922 Mostly an ethnographic study of the natives hanging about the Amazon, but does describe in the Introduction, the three journeys, and mentions a connection with HO. 1906 -1908 or so, based in Arequipa, explicitly at the Observatory.
peabody Museum exploration of peru, witth John Walter Hastings, Louis de Milhau, Dr. Edward Franklin Horr, a surgeon, Roosevelt met Hastings and whatsit at the White hHouse, and the Cardinal Gibbons wrote a letter of introduction. In 1906, the party sailed from New York, and on arrival in Lima were present to the President, senor Pardo and his Minister of Finance, Senor Leguia, now president of the republic, Continued to Arequipu, where is site the HO of Arequipa, which was our base while we were in Peru. three journeys were made across the Andes and into the lowlands,
Second journey started at Cuzo, past Ollantaytambo, Manco Cappac, and stayed with the Macheyenga indians at Cahuide, viisted at pisac.
4 Before he left for Peru, Bingham corresponded with William Curtis Farabee, a Harvard University professor who had led the J. DeMilhau Ethnological Expedition to South America (1906–1909). Farabee reported that during his field work he heard rumors of a lost city in the mountains and he sent Bingham some kind of map. This vague information appears not to have been useful to Bingham in finding the site of Machu Picchu since he writes, “On the other hand, a Harvard Anthropological Expedition, under the leadership of Dr. William Farabee, had recently been over this road without reporting any ruins of importance (Bingham Citation1915:202).” (footnote in Gonzales & Bauer 2022)
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/machu-picchu-hiram-bingham
Farabee was sick after his travels, but went back to Peru in the must have een in the early 20s.
In 1922 Dr. Farabee returned to Peru for the museum, penetrating to a remote section, where the hardships of climate and travel were great. He was taken down by fever and nursed for a long time by an Indian tribe. An Indian messenger was sent to the coast for help, and a wealthy native friend of the scientist sent a small automobile into the mountains to get him out. They motored with the sick man down mountain trails and through jungles.
https://www.nytimes.com/1925/06/25/archives/farabee-famous-explorer-dead-40-blood-transfusions-fail-to-save.html
Farabee returned to Peru for the Penn Museum in 1922 and 1923
https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/william-farabee-martyr-to-science/
his wife wront from Ica that Farabee was "here very ill with inflammatory dysenteria. He took sick in the interior one hundred and fifty four miles away. As there was no physician he had to come here. He rode on horseback fifty-two miles the first day, then went to bed and sent for an automobile which arrived three days later. He has had an awful journey in a Ford car over the trail of the Pampa Huahuari to Ica a distance of one hundred miles where he arrived more dead than alive. Doctor says if he had been two days later he could not have saved his life.”
https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/william-farabee-martyr-to-science/
https://www.penn.museum/sites/journal/1325/
In 1922 the Museum sent am expedition to southern Peru and Dr, Farabee again took charge of the South American work. While conducting explorations in the Nasca country in the interior of southern Peru, he was attacked by fever and by inflammatory dysentery. Realizing the danger of his situation, he set out alone to reach the coast and to seek medial aid, He broke down completely on the way and the journey ended in an Indian’s hut where he was nursed by the native family until their messengers could reach the coast and bring the necessary aid to save his life. He was then carried to a hacienda where civilized comforts and scientific treatment and his own great physical strength restored him slowly to a semblance of health. To complete his cure, it was decided that he should go to Arequipa where the high mountain air would invigorate his exhausted system, The experiment was not entirely satisfactory in its results and he was taken to the island of Juan Fernandez. In spite of every effort, Dr. Farabee began to realize that he was no longer able to undergo the severe hardships that his projected explorations. entailed and after making a journey sarong the Araucanian Indians of Chile, he returned to Philadelphia by way of the Argentine and Rio Janeiro. arriving here in the spring of 1923.
https://www.penn.museum/sites/journal/1325/
Dr. Farabee combined the qualities of ripe scholarship with a magnetic personality, a kindly disposition and the buoyancy of youth. He won friends readily and held thorn firmly wherever he went. It is not easy to recall any man of science who was personally so well liked, who had so few enemies and so many friends.
https://www.penn.museum/sites/journal/1379/ describes his recuperation (hah!) at Arequipa, where he kept excavating
Returning to Arequipa for a few days on August 29th, Dr. Farabee proceeded again to the highlands on September 15th, this time to the romantic city of Cuzco, apparently with the purpose of making researches and excavations in this region. He remained in Cuzco until September 30th, much of the time living with Dr. A. A. Giesecke, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Rector of the University of Cuzco and sometime Mayor of the city.
Fifteen days of rest at Chosica not proving a high road to convalescence, Dr. Farabee went to the British-American Hospital in Callao for the week of July 12-18. From here he decided to carry out his long projected trip to Arequipa, a health resort of much higher altitude in southern Peru. They left on the 18th and reached Mollendo, the seaport, July 20th, Dr. Farabee “well, but thin and weak,” as he optimistically reports.
In the beautiful healthful region of Arequipa Dr. and Mrs. Farabee remained from July 20th until August 24th, recuperating under the shadow of the majestic snowcapped volcano “El Misti,” 19,200 feet high. Even in his weakened condition, his mind was constantly on his work and the objects of his expedition. In a letter of August 23rd he states that although thin and light he felt in good health and had been exploring the region for three weeks. The whole valley, he reports, was formerly occupied, and the terraces are used for house sites today. Regarding his excavations, I quote his report almost verbatim. This in 1922. There's a railroad from Mollendo to Arequipa
Use this as a starting point. https://www.penn.museum/sites/journal/1325/
- Engel, Frederic. "Early Sites in the Pisco Valley of Peru: Tambo Colorado." American Antiquity, vol. 23, no. 1, 1957, pp. 34–45, Cambridge Core, doi:10.2307/277278.
- Farabee, W.C. Indian Tribes of Eastern Peru. The Museum, 1922.
- Farabee, William Curtis. "A Plea for Coöperation." Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 4, no. 4, 1921, pp. 773–77, doi:10.1215/00182168-4.4.773.
Engel, 1957, mentions Farabee in terms of Pisco valley, neither Arequipa nor Machu Picchu
Farabee 1921 doesn't seem to have anything of interest to this, but talks about how archaeologists and historians are at loggerheads (duh)
Farabee 1922 Mostly an ethnographic study of the natives hanging about the Amazon, but does describe in the Introduction, the three journeys, and mentions a connection with HO. 1906 -1908 or so, based in Arequipa, explicitly at the Observatory.
peabody Museum exploration of peru, witth John Walter Hastings, Louis de Milhau, Dr. Edward Franklin Horr, a surgeon, Roosevelt met Hastings and whatsit at the White hHouse, and the Cardinal Gibbons wrote a letter of introduction. In 1906, the party sailed from New York, and on arrival in Lima were present to the President, senor Pardo and his Minister of Finance, Senor Leguia, now president of the republic, Continued to Arequipu, where is site the HO of Arequipa, which was our base while we were in Peru. three journeys were made across the Andes and into the lowlands,
Second journey started at Cuzo, past Ollantaytambo, Manco Cappac, and stayed with the Macheyenga indians at Cahuide, viisted at pisac.
4 Before he left for Peru, Bingham corresponded with William Curtis Farabee, a Harvard University professor who had led the J. DeMilhau Ethnological Expedition to South America (1906–1909). Farabee reported that during his field work he heard rumors of a lost city in the mountains and he sent Bingham some kind of map. This vague information appears not to have been useful to Bingham in finding the site of Machu Picchu since he writes, “On the other hand, a Harvard Anthropological Expedition, under the leadership of Dr. William Farabee, had recently been over this road without reporting any ruins of importance (Bingham Citation1915:202).” (footnote in Gonzales & Bauer 2022)