Details

Subject(s)

• Quiché drama [Browse]
• Quiché dance [Browse]
• Quiché Indians—History—Drama [Browse]
• Quiché calendar [Browse]
• Quiché language—Texts [Browse]
• Mexico—History—Conquest, 1519-1540—Drama [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Former owner

• Gates, William, 1863-1940 [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Paper [Browse]

Contained in

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

Compiled/​Created

[1800-1824?].

Linking notes

Forms part of the Robert Garrett Collection (C0744).

Summary note

Ms. dance-drama of the Guatemala version of the Dance of the Conquest of Mexico. The text is unusual in that the Indians speak K'iche' and the Spaniards speak Mayanized Spanish, both in Mayan semantic couplets. The plot deals with the coming of the Spaniards to Mexico and the defeat and conversion of the Indians. The title role of Zaqi Q'oxol or "White Demon" is played by an Indian who undertakes to represent paganism in the debate (the role is comic and licentious). Text incomplete.

Notes

Paper damaged with loss of text.

Binding note

Disbound (one large qathering and a portion of another).

Language note

Text in K'iche' and 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.

Publications about

Quiché dramas and divinatory calendars / Munro S. Edmonson. New Orleans, La. : Middle American Research Institute, 1997.

Cite as

Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 169, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

White demon, Ms. A

In

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

OCLC

53199811

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