Details

Subject(s)

• Mayas—Wars—Mexico—Yucatán (State). [Browse]
• Maya language—Texts [Browse]
• Yucatán (Mexico : State)—History—Caste War, 1847-1855 [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Related name

• Pec, Benancio [Browse]

Recipient

• García, José Antonio [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Former owner

• Gates, William, 1863-1940 [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Letters—Mexico—Yucatán (State)—19th century [Browse]
• Paper [Browse]
• Correspondence—Mexico—Yucatán (State)—19th century [Browse]

Contained in

• Multi-title collection including Caste War letter from Jacinto Pat to Jose Munigo Vasquez, and 25 other(s).
• Robert Garrett collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s.

Compiled/​Created

[1849 Nov. 29].

Linking notes

Forms part of the Robert Garrett Collection (C0744).

Summary note

Autograph letter. Florentino Chan puts off the proposals of Garcia, who is identified as "cura."

Language note

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.

Cite as

Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manucripts, no. 56, Manuscripts Division, Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Place name(s)

Mexico Yucatán.

Other title(s)

Castas de Indios

In

• Robert Garrett Collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s
• Multi-title collection including Caste War letter from Jacinto Pat to Jose Munigo Vasquez, and 25 other(s).

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