• Zakicoxol : manuscript, [1800 or 1802 Sept. 20].

Format:
  • Manuscript
  • Book
Date:
  • [1800 or 1802 Sept. 20].
Subject:
  • Quiché drama
  • Quiché dance
  • Quiché Indians—History—Drama
  • Quiché calendar
  • Quiché language—Texts
  • Mexico—History—Conquest, 1519-1540—Drama
  • Indigenous Studies
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Call number:
  • C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 173)
Extent:
  • 1 v. (48 leaves) : paper ; 22 x 16 cm.
Description:
  • Decoration: contains some primative pen-and-ink and pencil sketches on pp. 222, [3], and [5].
Alternative:
  • White demon, Ms. B
Spatial:
  • Mexico
Relation:
  • Robert Garrett Collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s
Text language:
  • Text in K'iche' and Spanish.
Binding note:
  • Parchment wrapper, with evidence of leather end ties.
Provenance:
  • 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:
  • 1800-01-01T00:00:00Z/1802-12-31T23:59:59Z
Abstract:
  • Ms. dance-drama, of the Guatemala version of the Dance of the Conquest of Mexico. The text is unusual in that the Indians speak K'ich'e and the Spaniards speak Mayanized Spanish, both in Mayan semantic couplets. The plot deals with the coming of the Spaniards to Mexico and the defeat and conversion of the Indians. The title role of Zaqi Q'oxol or "White Demon" is played by an Indian who undertakes to represent paganism in the debate (the role is comic and licentious). Signed "escribano Cablido Diego de Leon," on p. [223]. Text incomplete.
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/3197xq559
Location:
  • Special Collections C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 173)
Exhibit Tags:
Genre:
  • Manuscripts, Maya 19th century.
  • Pen works 19th century.
  • Pencil works 19th century.
  • Paper.
  • Parchment binding (Binding)
  • manuscripts (documents)