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Miscellaneous manuscripts about Latin American Indians, 1776-1971.

Title: Miscellaneous manuscripts about Latin American Indians, 1776-1971.

Hand-drawn map showing migration of Indians in pre-Columbian times, n.d.; bound hand-lettered book, THE HISTORY OF THE ISLAND OF GUIANA, COMMONLY STILED THE WILD COAST OF SOUTH AMERICA, emphasizing customs of Indians, author unknown, 1781; verbatim copy of LA FLORIDA DEL INCA by Garcilaso de la Vega, in Spanish, late 18th century; manuscript translation of Eduard Seler's "The Eighteenth Annual Festivals of the Mexicans," in Spanish, 1899; and manuscript of Seler's "On the Present State of Our Knowledge of the Mexican and Centro-American Hieroglyphic Writing," 1902. Manuscript by Miguel Acosta Saignes, EL COMERCIO DE LOS AZTECA, illustrated with maps, 1945; photocopy of journal of Juan Dominquez de Mendoza, entitled "Provincias Internas," in Spanish, n.d.; typescripts of letters written by Francisco Vazquez de Coronado and others to Spanish government officials about Indians in Mexico and New Mexico, giving impressions of Indians, 1539. Transcripts written by others in 1580-1586 concern relationship of Franciscan friars with Mexican Indians. Quechua Indian prayer book, probably from Chile, is a pictographic missal.

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