Maya Society
administrative history
Citation:
NIC files (hdg.: Maya Society; imprint: Maya Society, at the Johns Hopkins University)LC in RLIN, 8-10-86 (hdg.: Maya Society)
Checklist of Mesoamerican manuscripts, 2003 (Maya Society; est. 1920 in Auburn Hill, Va. by William Gates; dedicated to collection and dissemination of information on Maya languages and culture; published more than twenty publications)
The Maya Society and its work, 1937: p. 3 (est. July 21, 1930 in Washington, D.C.; dedicated to promotion of knowledge and understanding of Indian races of Middle America, past and present, especially the Maya people and their country; publishing and research on topic)
Found in 40 Collections and/or Records:
William Gates collection of Nahuatl Christian texts, 1521-1940
Contains photocopies, typescripts, and manuscripts from Gates' collection of Christian texts in the Nahuatl language.
William Gates collection of Nahuatl codices, picture manuscripts, and historical texts, approximately 1521-1940
Contains photocopies and manuscripts from Gates' collection of codices, picture manuscripts, and historical texts in the Nahuatl language.
William Gates collection of Nahuatl texts, 1521-1940
Contains photocopies, typescripts, and manuscripts from Gates' collection of texts in the Nahuatl language.
William Gates collection of Opata historical texts, 1521-1940
Contains photocopies, typescripts, and manuscripts from Gates' collection of historical texts in the Opata language.
William Gates collection of Opata texts, 1521-1940
Contains photocopies, typescripts, and manuscripts from Gates' collection of texts in the Opata language.
William Gates collection of Opata vocabularies, 1702-1775
Contains discourses and a book that have vocabularies in Opata.
William Gates collection of Otomí texts, 1507-1940
Contains photocopies from Gates' collection of texts in the Otomí language.
William Gates collection of Pocomam texts, 1720
Contains a photocopy and a typescript from Gates' collection of texts in the Pocomam language.
William Gates collection of Pocomchi texts, 1521-1940
Contains photocopies and typescripts from Gates' collection of texts in Pocomchí.
William Gates collection of source materials on grammars and vocabularies of native languages, 1520-1940
Contains source materials, largely photocopies, of numerous Mesoamerican, Central American, and South American Indian languages. All materials were compiled throughout Gates' 1898 to 1940 academic involvement with Mesoamerica.