Indians of Central America.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings DO NOT USE
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Les Antilles: etude d'ethnographie et d'archeologie americaines, notes
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 9126
Scope and content
Packets of hand written copies and notes of a work published by the same title. Information regarding the West Indies.
Dates:
[ca. 1860]
Migración Precolombina de los Chorotega-Mangue
Collection — Huntington box 32 - folder 1
Identifier: 9162
Scope and content
Hand drawn map showing migrations of Chorotega-Mangue Indians from Mexico to Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica.
Dates:
1900s?
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.
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.
Star gods of the ancient Americas
Collection — Huntington box 1: [Barcode: 31924092111024]
Identifier: 9058
Scope and content
Photocopy mock up, with publishing annotations and edits, of a catalog for the Star Gods of the Ancient Americas exhibit which appeared at the American Museum of Natural History and the Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum, 1982-1984. The exhibit was produced by the Museum of the American Indian. The catalog includes the label copy that was in the exhibit, illustrations and photographs. Includes information about culture and artifacts from Indians of North, Central, and South America,...
Dates:
[1982].