• Aztec map on deerskin, [15--].

Format:

• Manuscript
• Book

Date:

• [15--].

Subject:

• Aztec cartography
• Mapas Mexico Manuscript
• Indigenous Studies
• Maps—16th century

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9939275803506421

Call number:

• North 9, C0744.02 (Garrett Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 21)

Extent:

• 1 item ; 1280 x 1380 mm.

Spatial:

• Mexico

Relation:

• Robert Garrett Collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s

Text language:

• Text in Nahuatl.

Provenance:

• Acquired from C. C. James, Mexico by Robert Garrett Jan. 5, 1939. Garrett probably added this item to his collection at Princeton University Library in 1949. "This deerskin had strayed from Garrett’s collection of manuscripts in indigenous Middle American languages before the collection came to the Princeton University Library in 1946, perhaps because it had been lent to the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore in August 1939. It was discovered among the effects of Garrett’s daughter, Mrs. William W. L. Reed, and presented to Princeton in 1986" per A.L. Bush.

Source acquisition:

• Gift Robert Garrett, 1949.

Created:

• 1500-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abstract:

• 16th-century copy of an Aztec map painted on deerskin in blue, green, red, yellow, grey, and black pigments with Nahuatl glosses.

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/1j92gb548

Location:

• Special Collections North 9, C0744.02 (Garrett Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 21)

Exhibit Tags:

• Nahuatl
• Maps