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Date:1925
Contributor:Gamio, Manuel, 1883-1960 | Toor, Frances, 1890-1956
Subject:Folklore | Art | Archaeology | Anthropology | Social life and customs | Rites and ceremonies | Education | Mexico--History
Type:Still Image | Text
Extent:1 folder
Description: The Eugenics Record Office Records consist of 330.5 linear feet of materials relating to the ERO, founded in 1910 for the study of human heredity and as a repository for genetic data on human traits. The Eugenics Record Office Papers (1670-1964) contain trait schedules, newspaper clippings, manuscript essays, pedigree charts, article abstracts, reprints, magazine articles, bibliographies, photographs, hair samples, postcard pictures, card files, and some correspondence which document the projects of the Eugenics Record Office during the thirty-four years of its operation. Aztec materials include Folder "A:9772. Mexico" (1925), located in Series I. Trait Files, Box #65, which contains "Mexican Folkways," a booklet of brief essays such as "The Magic of Love Among the Aztecs" and "Coatlicue, An Aztec Goddess." Edited by Frances Toor with short offerings from Mario Gamio and several others. It was intended for the education of North American students of Spanish, and each essay appears in both English and Spanish on the advice of Franz Boas and others.
Collection:Eugenics Record Office Records (Mss.Ms.Coll.77)
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Language:Spanish
Date:1785-1806?
Contributor:Unknown
Subject:Mexico--History | Antiquities | Art | Yucatán (Mexico : State)--History
Type:Still Image | Text
Extent:18 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, "Varios modas de pintar. Y por geroglificos en el fresco y al temple," is a brief discussion of coloring techniques with some mention of figures used.
Collection:Notes on Mexican Antiquities (Mss.913.72.N84)
Language:Spanish
Date:1805-1807
Contributor:Dupaix, Guillermo
Subject:Archaeology
Type:Text
Genre:Sketches
Extent:2 volumes
Description: Volume 1-186 leaves of text. Volume 2-179 leaves of sketches and ink washes. One of several copies made of the drawings of Jose Castaneda and the accompanying text of Dupaix, describing archaeological discoveries made upon three expeditions to Palenque, Mitla, etc., during the years 1805-1807. The drawings lack the Egyptian and Hebraic distortions found in the published versions; the text has been collated to follow King (1831), but an older system of numbering and crossed-out portions of text follow Baradere (1834). In the second volume, almost 300 ink wash sketches, pencil rubbings, and watercolors of Dupaix's expedition surveys of Mayan, Zapotec/Mixtec, and Aztec ruins in Palenque, Mitla, and Mexico City. Bas-reliefs of animals, men, geometric designs interspersed with pyramids (teocalli), fortifications, bridges, masks, idols, and diagrams of tombs and buildings. Primarily copies from rough sketches, with some signed by the artist Jose Castenada.
Collection:Viages Sobre las Antiquedades Mejicanas (Mss.913.72.D92v)