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Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (4): 775–777.
Published: 01 October 2007
...Edith Wolfe Casta Painting: Images of Race in Eighteenth-Century Mexico. By Ilona Katzew. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004. viii + 242 pp., color and black-and-white illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $60.00 cloth, $40.00 paper.) Exploring New World Imagery. Edited...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (1): 101–127.
Published: 01 January 2018
...Chris Arnett; Jesse Morin Abstract This article argues that the red-ocher paintings (pictographs) in Coast Salish Tsleil-Waututh territory in Indian Arm, British Columbia, were made around the time of contact in specific response to demographic collapse caused by smallpox. Tsleil-Waututh people...
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Published: 01 July 2023
Figure 8. Close-up of Pariacaca in the Descripción painting. Courtesy of Real Academia de la Historia, España. Sección de Cartografía y Artes Gráficas, Signatura C-028-004. More
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Published: 01 January 2018
Figure 4. Rock painting site (DiRr-2 and 4) on a large rock outcrop. Photos by Chris Arnett More
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Published: 01 January 2018
Figure 6. The location of rock painting sites in Tsleil-Wat (Indian Arm) in relation to local Say Nuth Kway oral traditions. Courtesy of Tsleil-Waututh Nation More
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Ethnohistory (2017) 64 (2): 318–319.
Published: 01 April 2017
... with the preeminent Mesoamerican manuscript scholar Elizabeth Boone’s foreword, which effectively positions the document within the Aztec and Mixtec traditions that the lienzo fuses. Nicholas Johnson’s first essay offers a fine introduction to the painted history and its physical properties and helps readers identify...
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Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (2): 211–237.
Published: 01 April 2012
...Elizabeth Hill Boone This essay argues for the study of histories that are executed in graphic registers other than alphabetic writing, specifically histories that are painted, knotted, and threaded. As the products of the recording systems of the indigenous people themselves, they are inherently...
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Published: 01 January 2020
Figure 7. The faded painted lettering of the Cooperativa Agraria de Usuarios (CAU) “19 de Julio San Javier Ltda” on the exterior of the arcade of the ex-Casa Hacienda at San Javier. Photograph by author. More
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Published: 01 January 2018
Figure 1. The study area location of rock paintings and mentioned village sites in Tsleil-Wat (Indian Arm). Courtesy of Tsleil-Waututh Nation More
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Published: 01 April 2021
Figure 8. Shashia, “head chief” of the Cowichan, painted by Paul Kane in April 1847. Source: collections.rom.on.ca/objects/222388/sawcea-cowichan-central-coast-salish (accessed 2 September 2020). More
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Published: 01 January 2018
Figure 5. Chief’s coats in a coup-count tally painted on the Schoch war shirt (1837). Gray stippling represents red pigment. Illustration by author More
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Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (3): 351–384.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Figure 8. Close-up of Pariacaca in the Descripción painting. Courtesy of Real Academia de la Historia, España. Sección de Cartografía y Artes Gráficas, Signatura C-028-004. ...
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (1): 117–133.
Published: 01 January 2010
..., literary critics, or others). Using indigenous American media such as the Andean khipu, Moche fine-line painting, and Mesoamerican iconography as a starting and ending point, it proposes a dialogic model of literacy and subsequently a dialogic model of media that constitutes a revision of the traditional...
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (2): 253–275.
Published: 01 April 2014
...John F. López In circa 1550, an indigenous mapmaker painted a watercolor of viceregal Mexico City and its environs. The Uppsala Map has long been a source for examining social life in the Basin of Mexico, yet its description of the city has been one less studied. This essay scrutinizes...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (4): 689–719.
Published: 01 October 2019
... such as codices painted during the Postclassic period (13 th to 15 th centuries) in the northern Maya area indicates that these associations have a longtime depth, spanning at least a millennium. Ethnohistoric sources from highland Guatemala, paired with contemporary practices in that region, provide further...
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Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (2): 163–195.
Published: 01 April 2022
... accompanied by a review of an important part of Texcoco’s history to demonstrate that the goal of the artist who painted this coat of arms was to exalt that city’s most significant political events: Nezahualcoyotl’s conquest of the Acolhua capital of Coatlinchan and the relocation of its court to Texcoco...
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Published: 01 January 2018
Figure 3. Tsleil-Waututh canoe travel in Indian Arm at DiRr-6, a massive outcrop of intrusive granodioritic rock marked with a single painting, 2014. Most rock paintings were meant to be seen in this context. Photo by Jesse Morin More
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Published: 01 January 2018
Figure 5. A: DiRr-12. Grey Rocks site with image enhancement (D-stretch). B: DiRr-12. Grey Rocks site. Detail of photograph by Harlan I. Smith taken 1928. Center figure may have partial overpainting. C: Rock painting DiRr-2(3) with image enhancement; note finger-width line and the relationship More
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Published: 01 July 2023
Figure 10. Close-up of Mama and its location between two rivers in the Descripción painting. Courtesy of Real Academia de la Historia, España. Sección de Cartografía y Artes Gráficas, Signatura C-028-004. More
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Published: 01 January 2021
Figure 8. Vignette from the Lindesmith muslin. White Swan, Pictographic War Record, 1880, paint on muslin. Courtesy of the Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame. Gift from the Rev. Eli Washington John Lindesmith, 1963.009.005. More