• Mexican Indian Pictorial Manuscript, [1890-1910?].

Collections:

• Mesoamerican Manuscripts

Format:

• Manuscript
• Book

Date:

• [1890-1910?].

Subject:

• Indigenous peoples of Mexico—Religion
• Picture-writing—Mexico
• Mixtec Indians—Mexico
• Indigenous Studies
• papers (documents)

Language:

• English

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9939266553506421

Call number:

• North 9, C0744.02 (Garrett Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 18)

Extent:

• 1 item : paper ; 580 x 580 mm

Description:

• Decoration: contains drawings colored in blue, green, yellow, brown, blue-grey, and tan.

Spatial:

• Mexico

Relation:

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

Provenance:

• A memorandum by Garrett dated Dec. 18, 1936, states, "this 'lienzo' is supposedly a forgery. It came to me with the Gates collection of Mayan manuscripts, but is not listed." The document is not identifiable in the 1942 listing of the Garrett collection and may have been brought to the Princeton University Library in 1949.

Source acquisition:

• Gift Robert Garrett, 1949.

Created:

• 1890-01-01T00:00:00Z/1910-12-31T23:59:59Z

Abstract:

• Manuscript copy. Probably represents a Central Mexican Indian ritual-calendrical scene. The composition combines details copied or adapted from various well known preconquest Borgia Group and Mixtec Indian screenfolds. Its style is similar to various falsifications that have been attributed, on dubious authority, to Genaro Lopez, a Mexican draftsman in the employ of the Mexican National Museum in the late 19th century. The verso is blank.

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/dc5999ng478

Location:

• Special Collections North 9, C0744.02 (Garrett Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 18)

Edm rights:

• No Known Copyright

Range label:

• Logical