MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
29094
Record number:
29094-2
JCB call number:
BA688 L864h / 1-SIZE
Image title:
[Mayan nobility]
Place image published:
[Madrid]
Image publisher:
[Juan Garcia Infanzon]
Image date:
1688
Image function:
plate; p. 133
Technique:
woodcut
Image dimension height:
18.8 cm.
Image dimension width:
14.5 cm.
Page dimension height:
28.5 cm.
Page dimension width:
20 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
A tree is surrounded by 13 [weeping or deceased] native Americans, caciques or Mayan lords.
Source creator:
Lopez de Cogolludo, Diego, 17th cent.
Source Title:
Historia de Yucathan
Source place of publication:
En Madrid
Source publisher:
Por Juan Garcia Infanzon
Source date:
1688
notes:
Mayan calendars were complex methods of keeping time. In Spanish colonial manuscripts, a calendar round, called a Katun round, was shown as as a ring of faces depicting Mayan lords to represent the 13 katuns of the Long Count katun. This particular image may use names of contemporary lords who were killed during the Spanish conquest. Lopez, a Franciscan missionary to the Yucatán, wrote this history of the Maya people who retained their freedom during Aztec domination but were conquered by the Spanish under the command of Francisco de Montejo during three long compaigns which concluded in 1545.
Time Period:
1651-1700
References:
http://www.math.sfu… (Jan. 2004)
References exhibitions:
Cf. Delgado-Gomez, A. Spanish Historical Writing about the New World, fig. 18
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1941.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Spanish America
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Indians of Mexico

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