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Language:Spanish
Date:1785; circa 1800
Contributor:Unknown
Subject:Mexico--History | Antiquities | Material culture | Stone carving | Yucatán (Mexico : State)--History
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Newspaper clippings | Sketches | Notes | Essays
Extent:2 items
Description: Two of the 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). "Notas varias y Caprichosas; Tehuantepec, Tonila, etc." discusses means of construction and decoration of stone work in various Mexican and Mayan sites (One sheet bears reference to 2nd Mixtecan expedition, 1806, i.e., DuPaix's 1806 expedition). "Pyramide de Paplanta [sic]. Description Ic[o]nografica, de la antigua y famosa Piramide o Adoratorio del Pueblo de Papantla" consists of two items relating to the pyramid at Papantla.
Collection:Notes on Mexican Antiquities (Mss.913.72.N84)
Date:1959-1962
Contributor:Robles Uribe, Carlos | Romney, A. Kimball | Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn
Subject:Orthography and spelling | Antiquities | Kinship | Medicine
Type:Text
Description: The Tzeltal materials in the Lounsbury Papers are fairly brief, limited to work done by other scholars interested in linguistics, history, and medicine, all found in Series II.
Collection:Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95)