Mayan hearts
By: Robert M. Laughlin ; block prints by Naúl Ojeda.
Contributors: Ojeda, Naúl, 1939-; Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Taller Leñateros
Published: 2002
Place of publication: San Christóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico
Language: mul
Number of pages: 127
Subjects: Tzotzil language -- Mexico -- Zinacantán.; Tzotzil language -- Idioms -- Translations into English.; Heart -- Folklore.; Tzotzil Indians -- Mexico -- Zinacantán.
Genres: Translations into English.; Folklore.
Work titles: Diccionario del corazón.
Notes: Mayan idioms concerning the heart.

Limited ed. of 500 copies.

Published in Spanish and Tzotzil in the same year under the title: Diccionario del corazón.

Text and woodcuts printed in red and black on off-white art paper. The illustrations, many full page, include printed crepe paper and moveable cutouts. Bound in textured black handmade paper over boards; a heart-shaped cutout in the front cover reveals red endpapers.

LC copy is unnumbered; identified as copy no. 456 in a letter from the book dealer accompanying the book.

In English and Tzotzil; the English phrases are the author's translations from Spanish from the Spanish-Mayan dictionary written by a Dominican friar in Chiapas, Mexico, in about the year 1599.

LC copy has provenance: Gift of Jay I. Kislak Foundation.  Accompanying letter removed and shelved separately after this title.