M0000514: The world with the four Bacabs, from a Mayan manuscript

Illustration of the world with the four Bacabs (Mayan Gods) from a Mayan manuscript, published in de Rosny, Leon: Codex Cortesianus. Manuscrit hie?ratique des anciens Indiens de l'Ame?rique centrale conserve? au Muse?e arche?ologique de Madrid, Paris, 1883. Related images: M0000517

1929

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8.1 x 10.7 cm

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

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