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Indians of Mexico

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:

Santiago Tuxtla, Veracruz : Culture and health

 Collection — Huntington box 1: [Barcode: 31924092111024]
Identifier: 9066
Scope and content

Report on field investigations in Santiago Tuxtla, January - April 1956, by Isabel Kelly and Hector Garcia Manzanedo. Manuscript discusses aspects of the geology, flora and fauna of the area, but most of the text is about the native people of the area. Covers all aspects of social and family life.

Dates: 1956.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Santiago Tuxtla, Veracruz : Culture and health

Skywatchers of ancient Mexico

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 9200
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...
Dates: 1980.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Skywatchers of ancient Mexico

The weaving symbols of the Mayan peoples of Chiapas, Mexico

 Collection — Huntington box 1: [Barcode: 31924092111024]
Identifier: 9067
Scope and content

Xerox of a holograph manuscript about Mayan weaving. Includes autobiographical information and field notes regarding the author's travels while researching. Many illustrations of weaving patterns. Some of the descriptions are written in Mayan. Title is dated September 1974. It appears this manuscript may have been published in a limited number.



Dates: 1974.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / The weaving symbols of the Mayan peoples of Chiapas, Mexico

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 Bibliothèque 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.

Unfinished toomb [sic] 5 miles east of Mitla

 Item — Huntington box 41 - folder 1
Identifier: 9102
Scope and content

Drawing of an unfinished Mayan tomb that was visited by Dr. N. H. Wheeler and W. F. Parker, February 19, 1895. Drawing has dimensions of the tomb. It is signed "complimentos de Dr. N. H. Wheeler."

Dates: 1895.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Unfinished toomb [sic] 5 miles east of Mitla

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