Archival Significance
A tourist-oriented cartographic pamphlet of Great Zimbabwe, produced under its Rhodesian-era name ‘Zimbabwe Ruins’, a naming convention that itself reflects the colonial-era reluctance to attribute the site’s construction to indigenous builders.
Institutional Context
Published by the National Museums and Monuments of Rhodesia, the government body responsible for the site’s management and interpretation at the time.
Content Summary
Provides a map and visitor guide to the Great Zimbabwe site as presented to tourists in 1960.
Research Utility
Useful for researchers of heritage tourism and the politics of how Great Zimbabwe was presented to visitors under Rhodesian administration, prior to the site’s postindependence reinterpretation.
Abantu Archives Note
Held in-house.