An analysis of the material culture of one of the eight extant Mexteca codices, Codex Vindobonensis: an encoded statement of Aztec myth and ritual. Some knowledge of the Nahuatl language will help with interpretation.
Native American Images note : Over three hundred vividly colored pictographs and phonetic signs of the Mextecan language. Repainted by the author, the watercolors exhibit pottery, ornaments, weapons, and ceremonial paraphernalia.
Provenance
Presented by Susan Nagler Perloff and Jane Nagler Rich in memory of J. Herbert Nagler and Walter K. Wilbur and accessioned, 1982.
Processing information
Inventory not complete, only scanned images noted.
General physical description
1 volume, 220 p., typescript with handcolored plates.
Genre(s)
- Drawings.
- Picture-writing
Geographic Name(s)
- Mexico -- Antiquities.
- Mexico -- History -- To 1519.
Subject(s)
- Aztecs.
- Indians of Mexico--Oaxaca
- Mixtec Indians
- Mixteca languages
- Nahuatl language--Writing
- Southwest Indians
- Totonac Indians
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Disguises, masks, and ceremonial quivers | 1940 | Request Item | |
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Five regions | 1943 | Request Item | |
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Implements of war | 1943 | Request Item | |
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Masks, devices, insignia, disguises | 1943 | Request Item | |
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Masks, disguises, nose and breast ornaments | 1940 | Request Item | |
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