Item Summary

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.

Descriptive Information

Title
Mexican Indian Pictorial Manuscript, [1890-1910?].
Call Number
North 9, C0744.02 (Garrett Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 18)
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc5999ng478
Language
Mayan languages
Date Created
[1890-1910?].
Format
Manuscript
Extent
1 item : paper ; 580 x 580 mm
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.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Decoration: contains drawings colored in blue, green, yellow, brown, blue-grey, and tan.

Discovery Information

Subject
Indigenous peoples of Mexico—Religion
Picture-writing—Mexico
Mixtec Indians—Mexico
Indigenous Studies

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Mesoamerican Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/c6b7c738-843f-4f94-8a99-f2294c86d9bd/manifest