Mapa de Cuauhtlantzinco Reproduction
Collection
Identifier: PICT-000-049
Scope and Content
"Conversion of Indians to Christianity" Postcard taken from watercolor copy of the Mapa de Cuauhtlantzinco.
This collection contains badly faded reproductions of Mapa de Cuauhtlantzinco, a seventeenth-century Mexican codex. Also called Codex Campos.
This collection contains badly faded reproductions of Mapa de Cuauhtlantzinco, a seventeenth-century Mexican codex. Also called Codex Campos.
Dates
- 1890-1920
Creator
- Van de Velde, Paul (Person)
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Copy Restrictions
Duplication of print and photographic material is allowed for research purposes. User is responsible for copyright compliance. For more information see the Photographs and Images Research Guide and contact the Pictorial Archivist.
History
The Mapa tells the story of an Indian cacique named Tepoztecatzin and his experiences during the Conquest of Mexico including the introduction of Christianity to his village. The original Mapa, consisting of 44 oil paintings of European paper, each 30 x 40 cm., was discovered in 1836 by the Padre D. José Vicente Campos. In 1855, he had them pasted on cotton sheeting and mounted in two woooden frames to save them from decay. Adolph F. Bandelier saw them briefly in 1881, and Frederick Starr, who visited the pueblo in 1895, photographed each frame. Returning in 1898 to take better pictures Starr found that part of one frame had unfortunately been destroyed by fireworks. Starr described one of the stretchers as having 27 painted scenes (with 29 numbered Náhuatl texts) in 3 horizontal rows; the second had 17 paintings (111 of which were variants of ones in the first frame) in 2 horizontal rows with the odd one set crosswise at the right-hand end. A Spanish translation by Padre Campos assisted by townspeople in 1855-1856 was written on the border of the pictures on paper pasted on the canvas.
Extent
43 items (1 folder) : 43 photographic prints
Language of Materials
Spanish; Castilian
Abstract
This collection contains faded reproductions of Mapa de Cuauhtlantzinco.
Physical Location
B2. Small Collections box 1. Filed by Pictorial Number.
Separated Material
Photographs separated from the Paul Van de Velde Papers.
Processing Information
This collection was previously called, Paul Van de Velde Photographs.
Creator
- Van de Velde, Paul (Person)
- Title
- Finding Aid of the Mapa de Cuauhtlantzinco Reproduction, 1890-1920
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Pictorial Collections Staff
- Date
- © 2007
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is in English
Revision Statements
- Monday, 20210524: Attribute normal is missing or blank.
Repository Details
Part of the UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections Repository
Contact:
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451
cswrref@unm.edu
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451
cswrref@unm.edu