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Map showing the journey of Silvestre Velez de Escalante in 1775 to Hopi pueblos in New Mexico and Arizona

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Title Map showing the journey of Silvestre Velez de Escalante in 1775 to Hopi pueblos in New Mexico and Arizona

Creator Vélez de Escalante, Silvestre, d. 1792

Date Created 1908

Language Spanish

Subjects Hopi Indians, Indian cartography, Indians of North America, Manuscript maps, Pictorial maps

Description Tracing of Silvestre Velez de Escalante's 1775 manuscript made by Irving B. Richman (1908?). Original manuscript forms part of Velez's report dated October 28, 1775 in the Archivo General de la Nacion in Mexico City. See their Catalogo de ilustraciones v. 1 (1979) p. 87 no. 219.
Flower within oval design at top center, "322" at upper right, and "E" at bottom center.
Pen-and-ink.

Summary Pictorial map showing the populations of Hopi pueblos in numbers of families. Based on map made for Velez by an Indian named Cosnina. Cf. H.E. Bolton's Pageant in the wilderness (1950) p. 2-3.

Extent 1 ms. map : cloth ; 287 x 190 mm on sheet 318 x 216 mm

Format Maps

Archival Collection Title Edward E. Ayer Collection, Irving B. Richman Manuscript Map Collection

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

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Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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Call Number Ayer MS map 229

BibID 115851

IIIF Resource Type Manifest

IIIF Resource ID https://collections.newberry.org/IIIF3/Presentation/Manifest/2KXJ8ZSQGGZZA

Unique identifier NL11II8V

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