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Aztec map on deerskin, [15--].
Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Mayan languages
Description
1 item ; 1280 x 1380 mm.
Details
Subject(s)
Aztec cartography
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Mapas Mexico Manuscript
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Indigenous Studies
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Getty AAT genre
Maps
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16th century
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Contained in
Robert Garrett collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s.
Compiled/Created
[15--].
Medium/Support
leather.
Linking notes
Forms part of the Robert Garrett Collection (C0744).
Restrictions note
Due to the fragility of the original map, researchers must refer to the high-resolution online image or use on-site printed color surrogates.
Summary note
16th-century copy of an Aztec map painted on deerskin in blue, green, red, yellow, grey, and black pigments with Nahuatl glosses.
Language note
Text in Nahuatl.
Provenance
Acquired from C. C. James, Mexico by Robert Garrett Jan. 5, 1939. Garrett probably added this item to his collection at Princeton University Library in 1949. "This deerskin had strayed fromGarrett’s collection of manuscripts in indigenous Middle American languages before thecollection came to the Princeton University Library in 1946, perhaps because it had been lentto the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore in August 1939. It was discovered among the effectsof Garrett’s daughter, Mrs. William W. L. Reed, and presented to Princeton in 1986" per A.L. Bush.
Source acquisition
Gift Robert Garrett, 1949.
Cite as
Garrett Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 21, Manuscripts Division, Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
Other format(s)
Also available in an electronic format.
In
Robert Garrett Collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s
OCLC
53853617
Statement on language in description
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