- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Princeton University. Library. Special Collections
- Collector:
- Princeton University. Library. Special Collections
- Title:
- Pre-Columbian Stamp Seals and Roller Seals Collection
- Repository:
- Graphic Arts Collection
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/p5547r444
- Dates:
- Pre-Columbian era-1600 A.D
- Size:
- 147 boxes and 7.0 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scagax): Box 1-147
- Language:
- Undetermined
Abstract
The Pre-Columbian Stamp Seals and Roller Seals Collection consists of approximately 150 clay stamp seals, roller seals, and flat seals with handles.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
Consists of 147 clay stamp seals and roller or cylinder seals dating from the Pre-Columbian era and Post-Conquest until 1600 A.D., chiefly from Mesoamerica but possibly from other places in the Americas. These seals (sellos) include anthropomorphic, zoomorphic, floral, and geometric designs, and were probably used to decorate fabric and/or the human body. Some of the stamps contain remains of pigments.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
Gift of Gillett G. Griffin in 1966 .
- Processing Information
This collection was processed by Teresa T. Basler and Charles E. Greene in 2004. Finding aid written by Teresa T. Basler and Charles E. Greene in 2004.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research use.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Associate University Librarian for Special Collections. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
- Credit this material:
Pre-Columbian Stamp Seals and Roller Seals Collection; Graphic Arts Collection, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/p5547r444
- Location:
-
Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scagax): Box 1-147
Find More
- Existence and Location of Copies
A few digital images from the collection are available at: http://libweb5.princeton.edu/mssimages/pre-columbian.html.
- Subject Terms:
- Indian art -- Central America.
Indian art -- South America. - Genre Terms:
- Cylinder seals.
