Donald B. Cordry photographs from Mexico

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Donald B. Cordry photographs from Mexico

1933-1940

https://sova.si.edu/record/NMAI.AC.001.008

Images consist mostly of portraits of the indigenous people in the Mexican states of Michoacán, Guerrero, Nayarit, Sinaloa, Oaxaca, Chiapas and Veracruz. The collection primarily contains images of Wikarika (Huichol) people, but includes images of the Purepecha (Tarasco), Guerrero Nahua, Chinantec [Chinantla], Zoque, Otomí (Otomi), Tzotzil Maya, Yoreme (Mayo) and Zapotec peoples.

93 Photographic prints; 9 Negatives (photographic); 24 Copy negatives

National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) Archive Center

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 11658234

National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) Archive Center

Related Entities

There are 2 Entities related to this resource.

National Museum of the American Indian George Gustav Heye Center

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6x38zcs (corporateBody)

Curator of the exhibit was Susan Milbrath. From the description of Star gods of the ancient Americas [1982]. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 67615718 Founded in 1916 by George G. Heye, the Museum is devoted to the collection, preservation, study, and exhibition of materials connected with the anthropology of the aboriginal peoples of North, Central, and South America. From the description of Records, 1860-1983, 1890-1980 (bulk). (Unknown). World...

Cordry, Donald Bush

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66t3w8f (person)

Artist; self-taught Mesoamerican scholar and ethnographer of the arts and crafts of Indian Mexico. Born 1907 in Detroit, Michigan; died August 30, 1978 in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Cordry studied at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and later earned a reputation as an expert on puppets, which he both created and collected. He began collecting artifacts and information documenting Mexican Indian arts and crafts in 1931, on a trip to Mexico. He formed professional associations with the Heye Foundation (...