Nahuatl materials, Notes on Mexican Antiquities
Language: Spanish
Date: Undated
Contributor: Unknown
Subject: Mexico--History | Antiquities | Orthography and spelling | Linguistics | Yucatán (Mexico : State)--History
Type: Still Image | Text
Extent: 15 pages
Description: One of various items related to the Dupaix expeditions of 1806 (totaling four loose notebooks with 23 ink and pencil sketches of Mexican ruins and hieroglyphics featuring fragmented text, in Spanish, with images of construction and decoration on stonework, pottery and buildings of various native ruins of the Yucatan). This item, "Algo de lengua mexicana, y de la explicacion de Algunos geroglificos," is a brief essay on phonology, dialectical differences, and an explanation of some hieroglyphics.
Collection: Notes on Mexican Antiquities Mss.913.72.N84