Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; (1904) (14597906028)

Identifier: mexicancentralam28bowd (find matches)
Title: Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Bowditch, Charles P(ickering), 1842- (from old catalog) ed Seler, Eduard, 1849-1922 Förstemann, Ernst Wilhelm, 1822-1906 Schellhas, Paul, 1859- (from old catalog) Sapper, Karl Theodor, 1866- (from old catalog) Dieseldorff, Erwin P. (from old catalog) Wesselhoeft, Selma, (from old catalog) tr Parker, Alberta M., (from old catalog) tr Jay I. Kislak Reference Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Maya calendar Calendar
Publisher: Washington, Gov't print. off.
Contributing Library: Internet Archive
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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nning withthe said Emperor Moteuchziima, and afterward to others down tothe times of Christianity). FRAGMENTS III AND IV These (plates viii and ix) are two fragments of a larger manu-script, which belonged to the collection of the Cavaliere Boturini. Inthe inventory of the collection made after Boturinis imprisonmentit is described in the fourth list, under number 26, in the followingwords: Un mapa grande, papel de maguey gordo con pinturas toscas,muy maltratado; trata de las cosas de la conquista de Cuanmana yotros lugares, de los Espanoles, con unos rios de sangre, que indicanlas batallas crueles que hubo de los Indios (A large map on coarsealoe paper, with rude paintings, in very bad condition, treats ofevents during the conquest of Cuanmana and other places by theSpanish, with rivers of blood, which indicates the cruel battles whichthey waged with the Indians ).a Boturini himself describes it as ° Penafiel, Monumentos del arte mexicano. Text, p. 61. . BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY
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