Mexican Indian Pictorial Manuscript (1890)
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.
Decoration: contains drawings colored in blue, green, yellow, brown, blue-grey, and tan.
Garrett Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 18, Manuscripts Division, Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
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.
Robert Garrett
Forms part of the Robert Garrett Collection (C0744).
Keywords: Indians of Mexico -- Religion; Picture-writing -- Mexico; Mixtec Indians -- Mexico; Peuples autochtones -- Mexique -- Religion; Mixtèques -- Mexique; Indians of Mexico -- Religion; Mixtec Indians; Picture-writing.; Mexico; Manuscripts, Maya -- Mexico -- 19th century; papers (documents); manuscripts (documents)