Pre-Columbian Image and Archival Collections

This archive created by Christopher Donnan documents the art and iconography of the Moche, an ancient South American culture that inhabited river valleys in the arid coastal plain of northern Peru circa 100–850 CE.

2,065 35mm color slides documenting approximately 2000 objects photographed by Anne Paul, predominantly textiles excavated from Paracas, from the collections of the Museo Nacional de Antropología y Arqueología in Lima, Peru

This collection consists of Sullivan's research files on various Nahua codices and other documents in Nahuatl.

The collection consists of rollout and still images of Maya ceramics as well as, to a lesser extent, photographs of objects from other cultures such as Olmec, Moche, and Nasca. The collection also contains photographs of Maya archaeological sites.

This collection provides visual support for the iconographic categories established in Proulx’s book “A Sourcebook of Nasca Ceramic Iconography”

The collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, notes, journal offprints, and photographs from the personal papers of Russian anthropologist and linguist Yuri Knorozov.

Materials pertaining to William Conklin's activities as a collector and scholar of Precolumbian textiles primarily from South American cultures

The collection includes original drawings by Dellenback of sculptures from the group known as "Pueblo Escultor."

Photographs of Maya ceramic vessels