• Caste War letter from Juan Carlos Tun to Comandante Norcisco Gomes in Chichimilà, [1850 Jan. 2].

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Format:
  • Manuscript
  • Book
Date:
  • [1850 Jan. 2].
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Call number:
  • C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 38-63)
  • Electronic Resource
Extent:
  • 2 leaves: paper ; 28 x 21 cm.
Type:
  • Letters
  • Paper
  • Correspondence
  • Texts
Title sort:
  • Caste War letter from Juan Carlos Tun to Comandante Norcisco Gomes in Chichimilà, [1850 Jan. 2].
Alternative:
  • Castas de Indios
Spatial:
  • Mexico
Relation:
  • Robert Garrett Collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s
Text language:
  • Text in Yucatec.
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:
  • 1850-01-01T00:00:00Z/0102-12-31T23:59:59Z
Abstract:
  • Autograph letter, written at the Hacienda X-Cancal. Tun demands elimination of the "contribusion publica," an institution of the same rate of payment for baptisms and marriages from whites as from Indians.
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/fn1072776
Location:
  • HSVM C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 38-63)
  • HSVM Electronic Resource
  • ELF1 C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 38-63)
  • ELF1 Electronic Resource
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
Range label:
  • Logical
Creator:
  • Tun, Juan Carlos
Author:
  • Tun, Juan Carlos
Contributor:
  • Gomes, Norcisco
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