• Land document : Ebtún, Mexico, [1721].

Format:

• Manuscript
• Book

Date:

• [1721].

Subject:

• Land tenure—Mexico—Ebtún—18th century
• Mayas—land tenure—Mexico—Ebtún—18th century
• Mayas—History—18th century—Sources
• Maya language—Texts
• Ebtún (Mexico)—History—18th century—Sources
• Indigenous Studies

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9934831453506421

Extent:

• 2 leaves : paper ; 16 x 21 cm.

Spatial:

• Mexico

Relation:

• Robert Garrett Collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s
• Multi-title collection including Title to land : Ebtún, Mexico, and 2 other(s).

Text language:

• Text in Yucatec; with some Spanish.

Binding note:

• In cloth box; housed with cardboard covers, removed.

Provenance:

• "Valladolid Yucatan"--Stamp on fol. 1r. "The American Art Association, Madison Square South, New York, 1835, 36"--Written in pencil on cover; previously owned by William Gates; sold to Robert Garrett (purchased from William Gates in 1930); deposited by Garrett at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton in 1942; removed from the Institute in 1949, at Garrett's request, and donated to the Princeton University Library.

Source acquisition:

• Gift; Robert Garrett; 1949.

Donor:

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961

Former owner:

• Gates, William, 1863-1940

Created:

• 1721-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abstract:

• A legal document concerning land in Ebtún, Yucatan. No names identified. "36" is written in red pencil in upper left corner of fol. 1r. Together with a fragment of another legal document concerning land in Ebtún, Yucatan. Date unknown [18th-century]. No names identified. "36" is written in red pencil in upper left corner of fol. 1r and "[Inspe]ccion Administrativa, Valladolid, Yucatan"--Stamp on fol. 1r of fragment.

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/2z10wv045

Exhibit Tags:

• Yucatec

Genre:

• Land titles Mexico Ebtún 18th century.
• Manuscripts, Maya 18th century.
• Paper.
• manuscripts (documents)