Ancient Civilizations of Mexico and Central America / Third and Revised Edition

BIBLIOGRAPHY

A brief list of books on Mexico and Central America is appended. These books may be consulted in the Museum Library as well as others referred to in the more complete bibliographies that will be found in the works cited.

Bancroft, H. H. The Native Races of the Pacific States. 5 vols. New York and London, 1875-1876.

Bandelier, Adolph F. On the Distribution and Tenure of Lands and the Customs with Respect to Inheritance, among the Ancient Mexicans. (Eleventh Annual Report, Peabody Museum of American ArchÆology and Ethnology, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 384-448, Cambridge, 1878.)

Social Organization and Mode of Government of the Ancient Mexicans. (Twelfth Annual Report, Peabody Museum of American ArchÆology and Ethnology, vol. 2, no. 3, Cambridge, 1879.)

Bowditch, C. P. The Numeration, Calendar Systems and Astronomical Knowledge of the Mayas. Cambridge, 1910.

Bransford, J. F. ArchÆological Researches in Nicaragua. (Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, XXV, Art. 2, pp. 1-96, 1881.)

Brinton, D. G. The Maya Chronicles. Philadelphia, 1882. (No. 1 of Brinton’s Library of Aboriginal American Literature.)

The Annals of the Cakchiquels. The original text with a translation, notes and introduction. Philadelphia, 1885. (No. 6 of Brinton’s Library of Aboriginal American Literature.)

Essays of an Americanist. Philadelphia, 1890.

Bulletin 28. Mexican and Central American Antiquities, Calendar Systems and History. Twenty-four papers by Eduard Seler, E. FÖrstemann, Paul Schellhas, Carl Sapper and E. P. Dieseldorff. Translated from the German under the supervision of Charles P. Bowditch. (Bulletin 28, Bureau of American Ethnology, Washington, 1904.)

Charnay, D. The Ancient Cities of the New World. Trans. by J. Gonino and H. S. Conant. London, 1887.

Dias Del Castillo, Bernal. The True History of the Conquest of Mexico, 1568. 3 vols. (Translated by A. P. Maudslay. Hakluyt Society, London, 1908.)

FÖrstemann, E. Commentary of the Maya Manuscript in the Royal Public Library of Dresden. (Papers, Peabody Museum, IV, No. 2, pp. 48-266, 1906.)

Gann, T. Mounds in Northern Honduras. (Nineteenth Annual Report, Bureau of American Ethnology, part 2, pp. 661-692, Washington, 1897-1898.)

Hartmann, C. V. ArchÆological Researches in Costa Rica. (The Royal Ethnographical Museum in Stockholm, Stockholm, 1901.)

ArchÆological Researches on the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica. (Memoirs, Carnegie Institute, vol. 3, pp. 1-95, 1907.)

Holmes, W. H. Ancient Art of the Province of Chiriqui. (Sixth Annual Report, Bureau of American Ethnology, pp. 3-187, Washington, 1888.)

ArchÆological Studies among the Ancient Cities in Mexico. (Publications, Field Columbian Museum, Chicago, 1895-1897.)

Joyce, T. A. Mexican ArchÆology. An Introduction to the ArchÆology of the Mexican and Maya Civilizations of pre-Spanish America. New York and London, 1914.

Central American and West Indies ArchÆology. Being an Introduction to the ArchÆology of the States of Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and the West Indies. New York, 1916.

Maya and Mexican Art. London, 1927.

Kingsborough, Lord. Antiquities of Mexico. 9 vols., folio. London, 1831-1848.

Lehmann, W. Methods and Results in Mexican Research. Trans. by Seymour de Ricci. Paris, 1909.

Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise in Mittelamerika und Mexico 1907-1909. (Zeitschrift fÜr Ethnologie, Band 42, pp. 687-749, 1910.)

Zentral Amerika. Die Sprachen Zentral-Amerikas in ihren Beziehungen zueinander sowie zu SÜd-Amerika und Mexiko. In zwei Banden. Band 1. Berlin, 1920.

Lothrop, S. K. Pottery of Costa Rica and Nicaragua. (Contributions, Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, vol. VIII, 1926.)

Lumholtz, C. Unknown Mexico. 2 vols. New York, 1902.

Symbolism of the Huichol Indians. (Memoirs, American Museum of Natural History, vol. 3, part 1, 1900.)

Decorative Art of the Huichol Indians. (Memoirs, American Museum of Natural History, vol. 3, part 4, 1904.)

MacCurdy, G. G. A Study of Chiriquian Antiquities. (Memoirs, Connecticut Academy of Sciences, vol. 3, 1911.)

Maudslay, A. P. Biologia Centrali-Americana, or Contributions to the Knowledge of the Flora and Fauna of Mexico and Central America. ArchÆology, 4 vols. of text and plates. London, 1889-1902.

Memoirs of the Peabody Museum, vols. 1-5. Reports on excavations and exploration by Gordon, Maler, Thompson, and Tozzer.

Morley, S. G. An Introduction to the Study of the Maya Hieroglyphs. (Bulletin 57, Bureau of American Ethnology, Washington, 1915.)

The Inscriptions at Copan. (Publication 219, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, 1920.)

PeÑafiel, A. Monumentos del arte Mexicano antiguo. 3 vols. Berlin, 1890.

Nomenclatura geografica de Mexico. Mexico, 1897.

Sahagun, Bernardino de. Histoire gÉnÉrale des Choses de la Nouvelle-Espagne. (Edited and translated by D. Jourdanet and RÉmi SimÉon.) 1880.

Historia de las cosas de Nueva EspaÑa. (Portfolio of illustrations from two Sahagun manuscripts copied under direction of F. del Paso y Troncoso and issued by the Mexican Government. Florence, 1922.)

Saville, Marshall H. Turquois Mosaic Art in Ancient Mexico. (Contributions, Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, vol. VI, 1922.)

The Wood-Carver’s Art in Ancient Mexico. (Contributions, Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, vol. IX, 1925.)

Schellhas, P. Representation of Deities of the Maya Manuscripts. 2nd edition revised. (Translated by Miss Selma Wesselhoeft and Miss A. M. Parker, Papers, Peabody Museum, vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 7-47, 1904.)

Seler, E. Die alten Ansiedelungen von ChaculÁ im Districkte Nenton des Departments Huehuetenango der Republic Guatemala. Berlin, 1901.

Gesammelte Abhandlungen zur amerikanischen Sprach- und Alterthumskunde. 5 vols. Berlin, 1908-1923.

Codex Vaticanus No. 3773 (Codex Vaticanus B). An Old Mexican Pictorial Manuscript in the Vatican Library. (Translated by A. H. Keane.) Berlin and London, 1902-1903.

Spinden, H. J. A Study of Maya Art. (Memoirs, Peabody Museum, vol. 6, 1913.)

The Reduction of Maya Dates. (Papers, Peabody Museum of American ArchÆology and Ethnology, Harvard University, vol. 6, no. 4, Cambridge, 1924.)

Squier, E. G. The States of Central America: their Geography, Topography, Climate, Population, etc. New York, 1858.

Stephens, J. L. Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan. 2 vols. New York, 1841.

Incidents of Travel in Yucatan. 2 vols. New York, 1843.

Thomas, C. A Study of the Manuscript Troano. (U. S. Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region, Contributions to American Ethnology, V, pp. 1-224, 1882.)

Thomas, C., and Swanton, John R. Indian Languages of Mexico and Central America. (Bulletin 44, Bureau of American Ethnology, Washington, 1911.)

Tozzer, A. M. A Comparative Study of the Mayas and Lacandones. New York, 1907.

A Maya Grammar, with Bibliography and Appraisement of the Works Noted. (Papers, Peabody Museum of American ArchÆology and Ethnology, Harvard University, vol. 9, Cambridge, 1921.)

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