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

Author
Tun, Juan Carlos [Browse]
Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Mayan languages
Description
2 leaves: paper ; 28 x 21 cm.

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    Special Collections - Manuscripts C0744.01 (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 38-63) Browse related items Reading Room Request

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      Compiled/​Created
      [1850 Jan. 2].
      Linking notes
      Forms part of the Robert Garrett Collection (C0744).
      Summary note
      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.
      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 Manuscripts, no. 59, Manuscripts Division, Department 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).
      OCLC
      57525806
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