Studies in middle America
Subtitle: eight research papers relating to Mexico, Central America and the West Indies
By: by Hermann Beyer [and others] Frans Blom, director of the department; Maurice Ries, editor of the series.
Contributors: Beyer, Hermann.
Series: [Tulane University of Louisiana] Middle American research series. Publication -- no. 5.; Publication (Tulane University. Middle American Research Institute) -- 5.
Publisher: Dept. of Middle American Research, Tulane University of Louisiana
Published: 1934
Place of publication: New Orleans
Language: eng
Number of pages: 401
Subjects: Indians of Central America.; Indians of Mexico.; Mayas.; Central America -- Antiquities.; Mexico -- Antiquities.
Notes: Pages [43]-[44], [299]-[300] and [351]-[352] blank.

These papers (each with special t.p. and index) were issued also as separates of the "Middle American pamphlets: no. 1[-8] of Publication no. 5 in the ʻMiddle American research seriesʼ," 1933-34.
Table of contents: value: No. 1 A Maya skull from the Uloa Valley, Republic of Honduras, by Frans Blom, S.S. Grosjean and Harold Cummins.; value: no. 2. Dermatoglyphics and functional lateral dominance in Mexican Indians (Mayas and Tarahumaras) by Stella M. Leche.; value: no. 3. Sololá: a Guatemalan town and Cakchiquel market-center, by Webster McBryde.; value: no. 4. Shell ornament sets from the Huasteca, Mexico, by Hermann Beyer.; value: no. 5. Manuscripts in the Department of Middle American Research, described by A.E. Gropp.; value: no. 6. The relation of the synodical month and eclipses to the Maya correlation problem, by Hermann Beyer.; value: no. 7. Mexican bone rattles, by Hermann Beyer.; value: no. 8. War of the castes; Indian uprisings in Chiapas,1867-70, as told by an eyewitness, Cristobal Molina. Translated by Ernest Noyes and Dolores Morgadanes.