The Titles of Ebtun

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Author: Roys, Ralph Loveland (1879-1965) Year: 1939 Publisher: Carnegie Institution of Washington Place: Washington, DC Description: xvii+472+3 maps (2 folding), 12 plates, figures and index. Quarto (11 1//2" x 9") issued in wrappers. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 505. First edition. In the archives of Ebtun, and Indian village near Valladolid in Eastern Yucatan, there is a large collection of papers which, together with related documents from other sources, cover practically the entire colonial period and the first decade of the independence of Yucatan. These are the only native Yucatecan archives available for study, which cover a large part of the colonial period. In these documents we are able to trace the manner in which native communities adapted themselves to the conditions imposed by their Spanish conquerors and establish a correlation between the mode of life related by the sixteenth-century Spanish writers and that described in the modern ethnological studies of the region. The Ebtun archives were discovered about 1917 by William Gates, who named them the Titulos de Ebutn. Securing the loan of the collection from the town authorities, and before returning it to Ebtun, where it is to be found at the present time, he photographed and mounted the documents and had them bound. Photographs of the collection were acquired by C P Bowditch, who presented them to the Peabody Museum of Harvard. The first ntice of these documents was published by A M Tozzer in

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