S. K. Lothrop negatives, photographs and lantern slides
Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation
3 Photographic prints
18 Lantern slides
The S.K. Lothrop collection primarily contains negatives, photographic prints, and lantern slides made by Lothrop while employed by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. Lothrop traveled on behalf of the Museum to New Mexico, Argentina, Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Peru. The four New Mexico negatives in this …
MS 7462 Adela C. Breton drawings of frescoes at Chichen Itza
The collection consists of five (5) drawings of frescoes at Chichen Itza made by Adela C. Breton. Three frescoes are represented; two of the drawings are duplicates. The collection also contains a reprint of a conference paper by Breton. Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and …
Gregory Mason negatives
Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation
This collection contains 86 black-and-white negatives taken by Gregory Mason from 1916-1931. The images depict scenes of Belize, Guatemala, Colombia and Mexico, including Mexico City, Cozumel, Chichén Itzá and other sites in Quintana Roo.
Victor Wolfgang von Hagen collection of photographs and negatives
Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation
122 Negatives (photographic) (acetate)
Includes images of the indigenous people of Ecuador, primarily the Tsatchela (Tsachila, Colorado) of Pichincha province and the Shuar-Achuar of Oriente province. Also includes 51 images of the indigenous people of Honduras, primarily the Xicaque and Maya.
Richard Ceough papers
The Richard Ceough papers include five typed and bound reports written by Ceough on his archaeological work in Chiapas, Mexico over four summer seasons from 1943-1946.
MS 2399 Character of Aztec and Maya Inscriptions
English translation of "Caratère des Inscriptions Aztèques et Mayas" published in Revue d'ethnographie. v.8 (1889).
MS 48 Collectanea upon the Codex Troano, terms of the Maya and other Central American languages
A collection of ethnographic and linguistic notes from diverse sources, aiming at an understanding of problems of reading Mayan hieroglyphic characters. Most of the notes cover Mayan vocabulary and glyphs, but Gatschet ranges almost at random over other data, ethnographic and linguistic, that may have caught his interest. He touches …
MS 1047 Comparative vocabulary of the Mexican or Nahuatl and Maya of Yucatan
Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937
Gibbs, George, 1815-1873
Contents: (a)- Maya and Nahuatl comparative vocabulary in Smithsonian Institution schedule of 1863, 20 pages, with 2 pages of letters and corrections of the lists. (b)- A second copy of Maya and Nahuatl comparative vocabulary, 20 pages only. November 8, 1864. (c)- Copy of the Maya vocabulary by George Gibbs, 6 pages. (d)- A copy-not exact-of the …
Frederick Starr collection of William L. Koehne photographs of Indigenous peoples of Mexico
Front and profile studio portraits of Indigenous peoples of Mexico, representing Aztec, Chinantec, Chocho, Chol, Chontal, Cuicatec, Huastec, Huave, Maya, Mazatec, Mixe, Mixtec, Otomi, Tarascan, Tepehua, Tlaxcalan, Totonac, Trique, Tzental, Tzotzil, Zapotec, Zapotec Tehuartepec, and Zoque tribes. The photographs were made by William L. Koehne of Chicago for publication in …
Bernard J. Edley prints and negatives
35 Photographic prints (gelatin silver, 2 x 3 inches.)
This collection contains 78 black-and-white negatives and 35 gelatin silver prints taken by Bernard J. Edley in 1948-1949. The images depict scenes of everyday life among the Santa Cruz Indians of Quintana Roo State and the Tzotzil Indians of Chamula, Chiapas State. Also present are views of archaeological sites at Monte Alban and Mitla in Oaxaca State.
