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Indians of Mexico

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Catalogs and advertisements for Indian traders

 Collection — Huntington box 27a - folder 1
Identifier: 9190
Scope and content Collection of catalogs, auction listings, and brochures for Indian curios. Some of the catalogs list prices for items including jewelry, blankets, clothing, baskets, and pottery. Some of the shops appear to have specialized in excavated items, while others contracted with tribes and reservations to have items made for their shops. Auction catalogs list items from estates of Indian collectors. Collection has a focus on Navajo textiles, but includes information on other items from Alaska to...
Dates: [ca.1900].
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Catalogs and advertisements for Indian traders

Index by site and state to the archaeology of Mexico

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924112438803]
Identifier: 9175
Scope and content

Index cards containing the name of an archaeological site in Mexico and the Mexican state where the site is located. The cards are arranged alphabetically by the name of the site and then repeated alphabetically by Mexican state. Each card references an atlas page number as well.

Dates: undated.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Index by site and state to the archaeology of Mexico

Mappa Reinisch.

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 9157
Scope and content

Copies of an 1886 reproduction of the original Mappa Reinisch, which was written March 23, 1586. The reproduction was made by Dujardine under the auspices of Comte Henri de Charencey in an edition of 25 copies, in Paris. It shows a genealogical tree of a Mexican tribe with hieroglyphic characters and text in Aztec written in Roman letters. Includes note of provenance signed by Marshall Saville. Two of the pieces are labeled, "Fragment du verso" and "recto." Has Indian writing and symbols.

Dates: 1886; Undated
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Mappa Reinisch.

Plan of Teotihuacan on maguey paper.

 Item — Huntington box 32 - folder 1
Identifier: 9160
Scope and content

Copy of an old city plan of the ancient city of Teotihuacan.

Dates: 1898; Undated
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Plan of Teotihuacan on maguey paper.

Three rare pre-columbian codices.

 Collection — Huntington box 32 - folder 1
Identifier: 9159
Scope and content Numbers 263, 317, and 356 in Glass' A Survey and Census of Native Middle American pictorial manuscripts. Codices are also described in Analas del Museo Nacional De Mexico for 1886. Published as a set with the original price of $3.00. Lithographed in Paris from the originals, which were held in the Bibliothè€que Nationale. Codices include the Mapa Quinatzin, Mapa Tepechpan, and Mapa Tlotzin. They depict Aztec history from 1298 to 1596, including Tenochtitlan, Chapultepec, Aztec emperor...
Dates: 1886; Undated
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Three rare pre-columbian codices.

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