Scope and content
Kit for a planetarium show about the Mayas. Has a focus on their astronomical observations, which helped to develop their calendar system. Includes slides, audio reels, a brochure, and the manual about the show. The manual includes the script, information about visual and special effects, lists of the slides and how to fade them in and out, a list of the music used in the production, information on the individuals and groups that put the program together, surveys and evaluations, teacher information with classroom activities, notes on the Mayan number system, additional information about the Maya people and a bibliography. A few of the slides are missing.
Dates
- 1980.
Creator
- Littmann, Mark (Person)
- Huntington Free Library (Former owner, Organization)
- National Endowment for the Humanities (Organization)
Extent
6 items. (6 items.)
Language of Materials
English
Ownership and Custodial History
Provenance: Huntington Free Library.
- Archaeoastronomy -- Exhibitions.
- Archaeoastronomy.
- Audiovisual materials.
- Brochures
- Chichén Itzá (Mexico).
- Chichén Itzá Site (Mexico).
- Color slides.
- Ethnoastronomy -- Exhibitions.
- Ethnoastronomy.
- Hansen Planetarium
- Indians of Mexico
- Indians of Mexico -- Games.
- Indians of North America
- Indians of North America -- Folklore
- Maya astronomy.
- Maya calendar.
- Maya language.
- Mayan languages -- Writing.
- Mayas -- Bibliography.
- Mayas -- Mathematics.
- Mayas.
- Mexico City (Mexico).
- Monte Albán Site (Mexico).
- Olmecs.
- Planetariums.
- Quetzalcoatl (Aztec deity)
- Sound recordings.
- Teotihuacán Site (San Juan Teotihuacán, Mexico).
- Toltec astronomy.
- Toltecs.
- Tula de Allende (Mexico).
- Description rules
- Appm
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
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