Cochineal production at the town of Guaspaltepeque Product:Fine art poster Man throwing a pot on

Man throwing a pot on a wheel

Friday 15th October 1965

view of a ship being fitted out by caulkers

view of insects on camellia with details of puparium and adult female at gestation

Cochineal production at the town of Guaspaltepeque Product:Fine art poster Man throwing a pot onSchematic 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