• Zakicoxol : manuscript, [1824 or 1829 Oct. 23].

Format:

• Manuscript
• Book

Date:

• [1824 or 1829 Oct. 23].

Subject:

• Quiché drama
• Quiché dance
• Quiché Indians—History—Drama
• Quiché calendar
• Quiché language—Texts
• Mexico—History—Conquest, 1519-1540—Drama
• Indigenous Studies

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9935213263506421

Call number:

• C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 170)

Extent:

• 1 v. (28 leaves) : paper ; 22 x 16 cm.

Alternative:

• White demon, Ms. C

Spatial:

• Mexico

Relation:

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

Text language:

• Text in K'iche' and Spanish.

Binding note:

• Disbound (two gatherings and a fragment of another).

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:

• 1824-01-01T00:00:00Z/1829-12-31T23:59:59Z

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'iche' 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). Text incomplete.

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/dckd17d5192

Location:

• Special Collections C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 170)

Exhibit Tags:

• K’iche’
• Plays

Genre:

• Manuscripts, Maya 19th century.
• Paper.
• manuscripts (documents)