Details

Subject(s)

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

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Former owner

• Gates, William, 1863-1940 [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Maps—Mexico—Ebtún—19th century [Browse]
• Paper [Browse]

Contained in

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

Compiled/​Created

[1820?].

Linking notes

Forms part of the Robert Garrett Collection (C0744).

Summary note

A final survey map of the Tontzimin tract by Joaquin Rosado Menendez, cf. Roys. "74" is written in red pencil in upper left corner of fol. 1r.

Notes

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

Binding note

In cloth box; housed with cardboard covers, removed.

Language note

Text in Yucatec with some Spanish.

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.

Cite as

Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 74B, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Other format(s)

• Facsimile reproduction of map: The Titles of Ebtun / edited and translated by Ralph L. Roys. New York : AMS Press, [1983].
• Also available in an electronic version.

In

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

OCLC

54750014

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