• Chirixc y Sancta Cathalina, etc. : manuscript, [ca. 1700].

Collections:

• Mesoamerican Manuscripts
• Indigenous Cultures

Format:

• Manuscript
• Book

Date:

• [ca. 1700].

Subject:

• Pokonchi Indians—Guatemala—Religion
• Pokonchi language—Texts
• Indigenous Studies
• Paper

Language:

• English

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9939192113506421

Call number:

• C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 239)

Extent:

• 1 v. (28 leaves) : paper ; 21 x 16 cm.

Spatial:

• Guatemala

Relation:

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

Text language:

• Text in Pokonchi.

Binding note:

• Unbound.

Provenance:

• Numbers 236-241 are practically identical in the writing, but have minor differences in the spacing of line, etc. They may nevertheless have been parts of a single collection; William Gates received them gathered among various pieces, including others in K'iche'; 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:

• 1700-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abstract:

• Pokonchi text concerning Santa Catalina, written in an unidentified hand. Probably formed part of a larger religious miscellany, with contemporaray pagination (p. 76-104).

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/dcst74d287k

Location:

• Special Collections C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 239)

Edm rights:

• No Known Copyright

Range label:

• Logical

Available online:

• library.princeton.edu