Mayan languages -- Writing.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
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of tracings of hieroglyphs, pencil and colored drawings of landscapes, people and artifacts, correspondence, several unpublished papers, drafts and manuscripts for Valentini's Deciphering the Palenque Slabs, Temple...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.
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.