MS 3984 Tracings of Mexican and Northwest Coast designs
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 3984
label: Variant Title
content: Tracings from codices, used for similarity of design
place: label: Place
content: Mexico
label: Place
content: Northwest Coast of North America
label: Place
content: North America
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The provenance of the collection is unknown.  There is no accession information.
culture: label: Culture
content: Aztec (archaeological culture)
label: Culture
content: Northwest Coast
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 22 Drawings (visual works) (ink  and watercolor, 6 x 9 inches; 8 x 11 inches)
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
container: label: Container
content: Box 3957 / 3984 / 3987, Folder 2
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS3984
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Graphic Materials
label: Type
content: Drawings (visual works)
label: Type
content: Works of art
label: Type
content: Tracings
label: Type
content: Drawings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Works of art
label: Genre/Form
content: Tracings
label: Genre/Form
content: Drawings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection consists of tracings from various sources, presumably used for a comparative study of designs.  The tracings are from Relación del viage hecho por las goletas Sutil y Mexicana en el año de 1792 para reconocer el Estrecho de Fuca, the Codex Mendoza, and other sources.  There is also a watercolor sketch of a headdress with frontlet (see Department of Anthropology object collections, E2663-0, Accession 66A00050).

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