MS 1201 Letter to Professor Spencer F. Baird
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content: NAA MS 1201
label: Local Note
content: The United States National Museum has a fairly large collection of Zapotec funerary urns and assorted ceramic objects donated by Ayme. For details, see list in Anthropology Processing Lab, United States National Museum.
label: Local Note
content: The Manuscript bears a stamp which reads, "Bureau of American Ethnology. Manuscript Vault. April, 1926."
label: Local Note
content: autograph document
name: label: Creator
content: Aymé, Louis Henri, 1855-1912
label: Addressee
content: Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887
topic: label: Topic
content: Mexico -- Monte Alban -- Nazarene
creator: label: Creator
content: Aymé, Louis Henri, 1855-1912
label: Addressee
content: Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887
culture: label: Culture
content: Zapotec
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 14 Pages
unitdate: label: Date
content: December 9, 1884
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS1201
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Concerns archaeological field work in the area of the Monte Alban ruins in Oaxaca. Letter written by Ayme in Oaxaca describes his excavations in three areas. The first at an hacienda called Nazarene, at the foot of Monte Alban; a second along a river bank, one mile west of the hacienda, and a third just north of the Oaxaca road, a mile east of Nazarene. The report describes the tombs he encountered and includes rough sketches of these structures and a few of the artifacts. At the close of the letter, Ayme asks for additional funds to continue his work, so as to "put...into your hands a superb, unequalled collection of Mexican antiquities."