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Language:French
Date:1859-1882
Contributor:Charnay, Désiré, 1828-1915 | Abbot, Griffith Evans, 1850-1927
Subject:Archaeology | Antiquities | Race | Anthropometry | Chichen Itza Site (Mexico) | Comalcalco Site (Mexico) | Kabah Site (Mexico) | Mitla Site (Mexico) | Oaxaca (Mexico : State)--History | Palenque (Chiapas, Mexico) | Teotihuacán Site (San Juan Teotihuacán, Mexico) | Tula Site (Tula de Allende, Mexico) | Uxmal Site (Mexico) | Yucatán (Mexico : State)--History | Mexico--History | Ethnography
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Photographs
Extent:2.0 linear feet, 123 photographs
Description: A traveler, archaeologist, and photographer, Désiré Charnay (1828-1915) was one of the most important early expeditionary photographers. During his tours of Yucatan, Oaxaca, and Chiapas in 1858-1860 and 1880-1886, Charnay became one of the first to use photography in documenting the great Meso-American archaeological sites and to make ethnographic photographs of indigenous Mexicans. This collection of photographs is representative of the range of images he took of Meso-American archaeological sites during three tours of Mexico in 1858-1860 and 1880-1886. Although some of the images have suffered an unfortunate degree of fading, they convey the power and fascination that these sites held for Charnay and his contemporaries, and include some of the best early examples of the use of photography in the documentation of Mexican archaeology. The collection includes images of the sites at Tula, Teotihuacan, Iztaccihuatl, Chichen Itza, Comalcalco, and Palenque; of archaeological specimens held at the Museum of Mexico; of landscape and villages in Yucatan, Chiapas, and Oaxaca; and of a series of Lacandon, Mayan, Mixtec, and Yucatec "racial types." The collection was apparently assembled by the scientist Griffith Evans Abbot (1850-1927), who presented them to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. The 15 cartes de visite included in the collection, mostly portraits taken in Peru, Chile, and Madeira, bear an uncertain relationship to the Charnay images, and are probably present simply because they were also once owned by Abbot. All images have been digitized and are available through the APS Digital Library.
Collection:Abbot-Charnay Photograph Collection (Mss.913.72.Ab23)
Culture:
Mixtec includes: Mixteco, Ñuù savi
Language:Spanish | Mixtec, Atatláhuca | Mixtec, Apasco-Apoala | Mixtec, Tidaá | Mixtec, Jamiltepec | Mixtec, Juxtlahuaca | Mixtec, Southeastern Nochixtlán | Mixtec, Tacahua
Date:1912-1929
Contributor:Radin, Paul, 1883-1959
Subject:Folklore | Linguistics | Oaxaca (Mexico : State)--History
Type:Text
Genre:Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:Approx. 150 pages; 300 word slips
Description: Consists primarily of loose field notebooks pages containing interlinear texts, word lists, and gramamtical anaylsis, located in Series VIII. Many pages include identification of towns or districts in Oaxaca associated with the text. Current identification of languages based upon place names noted. Also includes lexicon based on field work in 1912-1913, and upon Belmar as well as quotations from Pimental and Penafiel in Mechling. Comparative vocabulary documents include Sawatlan, Tecomixtlahuaca, Yolotepec) comparative vocabulary; San Esteban Atatlahuaca vocabulary
Collection:Paul Radin papers (Mss.497.3.R114)
Culture:
Mixtec includes: Mixteco, Ñuù savi
Date:1976-1977
Contributor:Mitchell, Mary-Elizabeth B. | Troike, Nancy P.
Subject:Linguistics | Oaxaca (Mexico : State)--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Reports
Extent:314 pages
Description: The Mixtec materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 2 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Mitchell and Troike.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)