Details

Subject(s)

• Indigenous peoples of Mexico—Religion [Browse]
• Picture-writing—Mexico [Browse]
• Mixtec Indians—Mexico [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• papers (documents) [Browse]
• manuscripts (documents) [Browse]

Contained in

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

Compiled/​Created

[1890-1910?].

Medium/​Support

Single sheet of real or imitation native paper made of an unidentified fiber (possibly maguey paper)

Linking notes

Forms part of the Robert Garrett Collection (C0744).

Summary note

Manuscript copy. Probably represents a Central Mexican Indian ritual-calendrical scene. The composition combines details copied or adapted from various well known preconquest Borgia Group and Mixtec Indian screenfolds. Its style is similar to various falsifications that have been attributed, on dubious authority, to Genaro Lopez, a Mexican draftsman in the employ of the Mexican National Museum in the late 19th century. The verso is blank.

Notes

Decoration: contains drawings colored in blue, green, yellow, brown, blue-grey, and tan.

Provenance

A memorandum by Garrett dated Dec. 18, 1936, states, "this 'lienzo' is supposedly a forgery. It came to me with the Gates collection of Mayan manuscripts, but is not listed." The document is not identifiable in the 1942 listing of the Garrett collection and may have been brought to the Princeton University Library in 1949.

Source acquisition

Gift Robert Garrett, 1949.

Cite as

Garrett Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 18, Manuscripts Division, Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

In

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

OCLC

53853599

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