Exhibit: Native Mexican Manuscripts

Location: Luhrs Gallery, 4th Floor, Hayden Library, Tempe campus

Available: Summer 2009, during normal library hours

Description: Guest curator, Professor Emily Umberger of the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, with the students of her Art History seminar class studying 16th Century Mexico selected and researched the Mesoamerican codex facsimile reproductions in the Special Collections of the Archives and Special Collections at the ASU Libraries.

This colorful and unique exhibit includes facsimiles of Aztec, Mixtec, and Maya court documents, maps, historic, and Pre-Hispanic records of text and imagery of several Spanish Colonial Period and PreColumbian manuscripts. The display will be on exhibit until September 2009.

For more information, please contact:

Karrie Porter Brace
Curatorial/Museum Specialist Senior
Archives and Special Collections
Arizona State University Libraries
P.O. Box 871006
Tempe, Arizona 85287-1006
Phone: (480) 965-4925 Fax: (480) 965-0776