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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
30891
Record number:
30891-2
JCB call number:
facsimile Bibliographic File
Image title:
facsimile [Boban Aztec Calendar Wheel]
Place image published:
[Paris]
Image date:
[1866-1867]
Image function:
calendar
Technique:
lithograph
Image dimension height:
37.4 cm.
Image dimension width:
38.5 cm.
Page dimension height:
39. cm.
Page dimension width:
46.3 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
Nahuatl
Description:
Symbolic representation of the months and day of the Aztec year with explanatory text in Nahuatl language transcribed into European script. At top left of the interior circle is a depiction of Hernando decor [Hernán Cortés?] wearing a black Spanish hat seated on a blue circle [the Lake of Mexico?], at top right is Don Antonio Pimentel [son of Ixtlilxochitl, an ally of Cortés, and last native king of Tezcuco] seated on a representation of a mountain [the Sierras of Acolhuan]. In the middle is an image of Netzcualcoyotl [the king of Acolhuan], and Itzcohuatl [his ally, the king of Mexico]. Each are enthroned with their symbol in front of them. At bottom, are depictions of the ancient Chichimecas, founders of the Tezcuco empire, or native Americans, who sit before a sacrificial fire which rises to the sun.
Source creator:
Doutrelaine, Colonel
Source Title:
Archives de la commission scientifique de Mexique, vol. 3, p. 120-133
Source place of publication:
Paris
Source date:
1866-1867
notes:
The Boban Calendar, named after Eugène Boban, a French archeologist and collector, was brought to general attention in 1866 when Colonel Doutrelaine published a reproduction and explanation of the calendar in Archives de la commission scientifique de Mexique, Paris, 1866-1867, vol. 3, p. 120-133. Because of deterioration, the reproduction made in 1866 shows much greater detail than the original. The names of the months are written in Nahuatl (but with Castilian characters); the months are given different symbols than are usually present on other Aztec calendars. This accession number has been assigned for the purpose of collocation only; the item bears no accession number.
Time Period:
1492-1600
References:
Archives de la commission scientifique de Mexique, Paris, 1866-1867, vol. 3, p. 120-133; Robertson, D. Mexican manuscript painting, p. 146-149, fig. 51
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1950.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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geographic area:
Spanish America
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Aztec calendar

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