• Land document : Ebtún, Mexico, [18--?].

Format:

• Manuscript
• Book

Date:

• [18--?].

Subject:

• Mayas—Land tenure—Mexico—Ebtún—19th century
• Mayas—History—19th century—Sources
• Maya language—Texts
• Ebtún (Mexico)—History—19th century—Sources
• Indigenous Studies

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9934833433506421

Call number:

• C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 74a)

Extent:

• 1 leaf : paper ; 17 x 18 cm.

Description:

• "[Inspe]ccion Administrativa, Valladolid, Yucatan"--Stamp on fol. 1r.
• "The American Art Association, Madison Square South, New York, 74"--Written in pencil on cover.

Spatial:

• Mexico

Relation:

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

Text language:

• Text in Yucatec with some Spanish.

Binding note:

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

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

Abstract:

• A fragment of a legal document concerning land in Ebtún, Yucatan. The document sets forth the boundaries of a piece of monte (forest land); the title "almehen" is mentioned. "74" is written in red pencil in upper left corner of fol. 1r.

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/bg257j89b

Location:

• Special Collections C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 74a)

Exhibit Tags:

• Yucatec

Genre:

• Paper.
• History
• manuscripts (documents)