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Aztecs.

 Subject
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Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Accounts and publications about Indians

 Collection
Identifier: 9087
Abstract Correspondence, biographies, and accounts collected in the 1930s, but describing actions from many years previous. Focus is on western Indians, exploration, and pioneers, particularly pertaining to Colorado and Utah. Folder 1: correspondence from Thomas P. Willson of the society. Stories of Indian captivities in Nebraska. Folder 2: accounts about Tascosa Texas, Guatemala, Central America Accounts, E. B. Sopris, William Carroll Riggs, St. Louis, Pierre Laclede, William Campbell, The Pony...
Dates: 1934-1938.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Accounts and publications about Indians

Constance Goddard DuBois papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924112438761]
Identifier: 9167
Abstract The papers include her field notes from her summers in California, notes on her activities with the Connecticut Indian Association, and newspaper clippings relating to Indian affairs, particularly those in California. Drafts of manuscripts for her publications on Luiseno religion, Diegueno mythology, and other subjects relating to the Mission Indians of California are included in the collection. Letters written to Du Bois from 1897 to 1909 comprise a significant part of the collection....
Dates: 1897-1909.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Constance Goddard DuBois papers

Crónica de Michoacán : Mapa de Michoacán.

 Item — Huntington box 32 - folder 1
Identifier: 9161
Scope and content

Watercolored copy of a historical scene orginally published in Beaumont's Crónica de Michoacán. Objects in the painting have been labeled.

Dates: Undated
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Crónica de Michoacán : Mapa de Michoacán.

Cuadro historico : geroglifico de la peregrinacion de las tribus Aztecas que poblaron en valle de Mexico. Num. 1-2.

 Collection — Huntington box 32 - folder 1
Identifier: 9155
Scope and content

A portion of the Atlas geografico, estadistico e historico de la Republica Mexicana, formado por Antonio Garcia y Cubas, Mexico. Imprenta de Jose Mariano Fernandez de Lara. Atlas mexicano, por Antonio Garcia y Cubas Cuadro I and II. Maps are surrounded by explanatory text in Spanish. The maps depict the migration of the Aztec people from Aztlan to Tenochtitlan over the period of several hundred years.

Dates: 1858; Undated
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Cuadro historico : geroglifico de la peregrinacion de las tribus Aztecas que poblaron en valle de Mexico. Num. 1-2.

Lienzo de Metlaltoyuca.

 Item — Huntington box 32 - folder 1
Identifier: 9158
Scope and content

Hand drawn and colored copy of an Aztec document. The copy was made by Philipp Josef Valentini. Document shows Aztec symbols, in a map format.

Dates: Undated
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Lienzo de Metlaltoyuca.

Mapa de Siguenza.

 Collection — Huntington box 32 - folder 1
Identifier: 9156
Scope and content

The map depicts the migration of the Aztec people from Aztlan to Tenochtitlan over the period of several hundred years. Reverse of the map has a ticker on it that says Peregrinacion de los Aztecas from Careri Gemilli [sic], Giro del Mundo. Note of explanation is included in the folder.

Dates: 1699 - 1700; Undated
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Mapa de Siguenza.

Miscellaneous artwork for the Museum of the American Indian publications

 Collection — Huntington box 8 - folder 1
Identifier: 9020
Scope and content

Contains 6 original paintings of art signed by R. Cronau, mounted for publication. 4 pages of printed proofs of the paintings as well. Pencil notes along painting edges for publication purposes. Paintings have captions, Tizoc; Gold Treasure of Sigsig, Ecuador; and Turquois Mosaic Objects from Hawikuh, New Mexico. The paintings show Aztec and southwestern United States jewelry and sculpture.

Dates: undated.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Miscellaneous artwork for the Museum of the American Indian publications

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.

Souls and Testamentary Executors

 Collection — Huntington box 9 - folder 1
Identifier: 9234
Scope and content

Typescript translation into English of the late 16th or early 17th century Aztec metrical comedy with additional notes. Contains some historical information about the Aztec and Spanish influence on their literature. Also includes an inventory of other comedias.

Dates: December 12, 1931.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Souls and Testamentary Executors

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.

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