Photographs and correspondence relating to Mayan and Mixtec codices
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 126
name: label: Correspondent
content: Stirling, Matthew Williams, 1896-1975
label: Correspondent
content: Thompson, J. Eric S. (John Eric Sidney), 1898-1975
culture: label: Culture
content: Mayas
label: Culture
content: Mixtec
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Negatives (photographic) (glass)
label: Extent
content: 7 Negatives (photographic) (nitrate and acetate)
label: Extent
content: 7 Prints (silver gelatin)
label: Extent
content: 1 Item (1 paper (questionable Mayan codex on book lining))
label: Extent
content: 3 Letters
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1956
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Collected in the Bureau of American Ethnology, circa 1950s. Photographs and papers donated by C. A. Smith and Dr. E. Beyer, through Dr. G. Abbott.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.126
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Negatives (photographic)
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Letters
label: Type
content: Photographs
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies note
content: Digital surrogates are available online.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids note
content: Preliminary finding aid available in repository.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs and papers relating to alleged Mayan codices.  The correspondence between Matthew Williams Stirling and Eric Thompson discusses the authenticity of a possible codex, also in the collection, which was found on a book in Oaxaca by a missionary.  Additional photographs in the collection document another possible codex, which was discovered on the top of a pyramid in St. Martin Huamelulpan, possibly by C. A. Smith; and a probable Mixtec manuscript in possession of Dr. E. Beyer.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional materials relating to Mayan and Mixtec codices held in National Anthropological Archives MS 3223, MS 3260, MS 48, and MS 1998-31.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The National Anthropological Archives also holds the Matthew Williams Stirling papers.