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Series 3: Stamp Seals: Geometric, Floral, and Other Designs, dates not examined
Collection Overview
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.
- Arrangement
No arrangement action taken or arrangement information not recorded at the time of processing.
Collection History
Access & Use
- Access Restrictions:
Collection is open for research use.
- Conditions for Reproduction and 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:
Series 3: Stamp Seals: Geometric, Floral, and Other Designs; Pre-Columbian Stamp Seals and Roller Seals Collection, GC185, Graphic Arts Collection, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (gax): Box 35-104
