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Title Vol. 26 de mon journal de notes de l'annee 1833-34 conjugation des verbes aztèques, vocabulaire tchol et maya, ocotzinco

Creator Waldeck, Fr�d�ric de, 1766-1875, Waldeck, Frederic de, 1766-1875

Date 1834-1837

Place Central America--Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico, Mexico--Palenque, Mexico--Yucatan

Language French

Subjects Chol language, Indians of Mexico, Maya language, Nahuatl language, Tzeltal language

Description Inside front cover: Nottes du Voyage de J.F. Waldeck. Anre. Commisioné. Vol. 26. an 1834.
Some pages contain specimens of butterfly wings collected by Waldeck from the forests of Palenque.
Laid in: newspaper clippings and additional notes on slips of paper.
In box with Ayer Mss. 1264, 1265, and 1267.
Additional Waldeck materials at the Newberry Library include letters, other journals, drawings, and original Indian pictorial documents formerly owned by Waldeck.
Forms part of the Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)

Summary Volume 26 of Waldeck's notebooks, containing research notes from 1833-34, with some additions from 1837. Waldeck begins with a lengthy section on various Indian languages: there is a glossary of Spanish, Tzeltal, Maya, and Chol terms, as well as a list of Nahuatl verb conjugations. Many of the notes concern the history and culture of ancient Egyptians, Phoenicians, and Asiatic peoples, to whom, Waldeck was convinced, the Indians of Mexico and Central America were directly related. Waldeck compares the sculpture and architecture of Copán with that found at Palenque and Uxmal, and provides a list of architectural terms used to describe the monuments at Uxmal. He also includes extensive sections on the early history of the Yucatán; the collections of the Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City; and the description of his journey from Palenque to Ocotzinco in March of 1833. A lengthy clipping from the N.Y. Evening Post of October 17, 1833 concerning the research of various explorers of the ruins of Palenque and which mentions Waldeck himself, is followed later in the journal (p. 66-72) by Waldeck's critical comments on the article.

Biographical/Historical Note French traveller, artist, engraver, and Americanist. Waldeck, of German or Austrian origin, may have been born in Prague, Paris, or Vienna, in 1766. He travelled to Mexico in 1825 to work for a silver mining company, and later lived in Mexico City where he gave classes in painting and drawing. Throughout his travels in Mexico, he made drawings of the Indian antiquities and ruins, especially in Palenque and Uxmal between 1832 and 1835, and in 1837 in Paris, where he spent the last years of his life.

Extent 163, [18] p., bound : ill. (some col.) ; 20 cm

Format Clippings, Drawings, Glossaries, Research notes

Archival Collection Title Edward E. Ayer Collection, Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection

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BibID 991200398805867

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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