Donald Cordry Collection Relating to Mexican Masks 1931-1978

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Donald Cordry Collection Relating to Mexican Masks 1931-1978

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Manuscript, galley proofs, photographs, and slides relating to the publication of Cordry's book, Mexican Masks.

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Benson Latin American Collection, General Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin

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Benson Latin American Collection, General Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin

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Cordry, Donald Bush

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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 (...