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Indians of Mexico

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:

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

Native American artist vertical file

 Collection
Identifier: 9241
Abstract

This collection contains ephemera covering artists, both Native American and non-Native American, whose artwork often focused on Native American subjects.

Dates: [ca.1850-2000.]

Native American biography vertical file

 Collection
Identifier: 9242
Abstract

This collection contains ephemera providing biographical information of, both Native Americans and non-Native Americans, whose work focused on Native American subjects.

Dates: [ca.1850-2000]

Native American publications vertical file

 Collection
Identifier: 9246
Abstract

This collection contains newsletters, newspapers, magazines, and other periodicals produced by Native American and non-Native American sources.

Dates: [ca.1960-2000].

Native American subject vertical file

 Collection
Identifier: 9205
Abstract

This collection contains ephemera covering a broad variety of topics relating to Native Americans.

Dates: [ca.1850-2000.]

On the present state of our knowledge of the Mexican and Centro-American hieroglyphic writing

 Collection — Huntington box 13 - folder 1
Identifier: 9084
Scope and content

Corrected draft of an address given "before this most illustrious assembly." Handwritten in pen with pencil corrections. Discusses the pictography and hieroglyphic writing of the Mexican and Central American Indian tribes. It also mentions several codices, such as the Codex Dresdensis Maya and the Codex Vaticanus Latinus 3773, authors, and the use of astronomy in the Mayan calendar.

Dates: 1902.

Philipp Johann Josef Valentini papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924112438738]
Identifier: 9168
Abstract Papers concerning Maya chronology, hieroglyphs, slabs, and languages, with comparisons to archeological sites in Palestine and Mesopotamia. Collection includes holographic manuscripts, bound and loose, hand copied portions of books, extensive notes in notebooks, large collections of tracings of hieroglyphs, pencil and colored drawings of landscapes, people and artifacts, correspondence, several unpublished papers, drafts and manuscripts for Valentini's Deciphering the Palenque Slabs, Temple...
Dates: 1870-1899.

Photographs from State of Guerrero Mexico

 Collection — Huntington box 15a - folder 1
Identifier: 9218
Scope and content

Photographs from Guerrero Mexico from negatives taken by William Niven. Photos show locals, cacti, buildings, and ruins.

Dates: 1895.

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

Rodolfo R. Schuller papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 9172
Abstract Vocabulary collection on Central and South American languages. Includes correspondence between Schuller and other members of the Museum of the Native American regarding the collection. Five boxes of 3x5 index cards with vocabulary items noted along with bibliographic source or notations in other languages. Six boxes boxes of half sheets with vocabulary items, words, definition, and pronunciation, organized by "root" or what appears to be subject in some cases. A note from Schuller says that...
Dates: ca. 1925-1932.