Pampas fox or aguarachay, Lycalopex gymnocercus, and spiny rat or casiragua, Proechimys guairae. After Felix de Azaras Voyages dans l Amerique Meridionale
Pampas grass, Cortaderia selloana (Gynerium argenteum carmineum). Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe
Victorian man behind pampas grass, Cortaderia selloana (Gynerium argenteum). Wood engraving from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe
Querandi people of the Pampas, ArgentinaQuerandi people of the Pampas wearing poncho in a store on Calles de los Torres, central Buenos Aires, selling stirrups, bridles, bola, lasso and other horse paraphernalia
Pampas deer, Ozotoceros bezoarticus (Guazuti deer, Cervus campestris). Handcoloured engraving by Thomas Landseer after an illustration drawn from life by Charles Hamilton Smith from Edward Griffiths
Gauchos butchering cattle at a slaughterhouseNative American gauchos lassoing and butchering cattle at one of the outdoor slaughterhouses in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch
Native American gaucho on horseback using bolas or boleadoras to hunt ostrich on the pampas in South America. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Theodore Goetz from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs
OSTRICH HUNT WITH BOLASThree men pursue an ostrich across the pampas of South America, hoping to catch it with a bolas - a kind of weighted lasso. Date: 1894
JAPANESE ARRANGEMENT -11PAMPAS-GRASS, PATRINIA SCABIOSAEFOLIA, and RIVER-SIDE PINK an autumn arrangement Date: 1934
JAPANESE ARRANGEMENT - 5STAUNTONIA HEXAPHYLLA, TIGER- LILY and PAMPAS GRASS a Summer arrangement. Ohara School of Ikebana Date: 1934
Somerset West, Western Cape, Cape Colony, South Africa -- residential villa on a hill. Date: circa 1908
Pampas or Azaras fox, Lycalopex gymnocercus.. Handcolored engraving on steel by William Lizars from a drawing by Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith from Sir William Jardines Naturalists Library
Huntsmen of the PampasThe Indians of Patagonia, in the southernmost part of South America, ride over the vast pampas plains with their lassoes and bolas. Date: 1934
PERU. ICA. Southern Pan-American Highway crossing the desert
PERU. ICA. Palpa-Nazca Lines. Ceremonial and ritual geoglyphs (200-700 AD). Detail of spider. Nazca art
Pampas Grass CultivatePampas Grass (cortaderia selloana) (aka gynerion) is cultivated extensively in southern South America for use in building and basket making, also for its decorative value
Music / Argentina / GuitarA Gaucho guitar-player of the Argentinian pampas
Argentina PampasA caravan crossing the Pampas