Cochineal production at the town of Guaspaltepeque Product:Postcard 29th October 1976

29th October 1976

18 June 1967

with an oval embossed stamp below: 'MAULL & POLYBLANK

Original: pencil on paper

Cochineal production at the town of Guaspaltepeque Product:Postcard 29th October 1976Schematic view of the town of Guaspaltepeque, in Oaxaca State, Mexico,as a centre for cochineal production. The simplified landscape shows a church and curate's house, but mainly the agriculture, collection and processing of cochineal, the traditional Mexican dye, from the scale insect Dactylopius coccus. From the manuscript copy paper 'Dr Houston's letter to Sir Hans Sloane giving an account of some plants and enclosing a draught of the town of