Outdoor portrait of a Zoque man in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas State, Mexico.
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Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Donald B. Cordry photographs from Mexico, Item Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
Portrait of three Zoque woman, two standing, one sitting in Copainalá, Chiapas State, Mexico. They wear traditional woven skirts and headscarves.
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Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Donald B. Cordry photographs from Mexico, Item Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
Portrait of an elderly Zoque woman sitting against a stone wall in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas State, Mexico.
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Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Donald B. Cordry photographs from Mexico, Item Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
Image of a Zoque Mask from Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas State, Mexico. The mask is used in the dance of San Roque etze.
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Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiphotos@si.edu. For personal or classroom use, users are invited to download, print, photocopy, and distribute the images that are available online without prior written permission, provided that the files are not modified in any way, the Smithsonian Institution copyright notice (where applicable) is included, and the source of the image is identified as the National Museum of the American Indian. For more information please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use and NMAI Archive Center's Digital Image request website.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Donald B. Cordry photographs from Mexico, Item Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
Image of a Zoque Mask from Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas State, Mexico. The mask is used in the dance of San Roque etze.
Collection Restrictions:
Access to NMAI Archive Center collections is by appointment only, Monday - Friday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment (phone: 301-238-1400, email: nmaiarchives@si.edu).
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiphotos@si.edu. For personal or classroom use, users are invited to download, print, photocopy, and distribute the images that are available online without prior written permission, provided that the files are not modified in any way, the Smithsonian Institution copyright notice (where applicable) is included, and the source of the image is identified as the National Museum of the American Indian. For more information please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use and NMAI Archive Center's Digital Image request website.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Donald B. Cordry photographs from Mexico, Item Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
Chimalapa. Mpio. Sta. María Chimalapa: Arroyo Cuuseu [interpreted] (en zoque), región del Río Verde en área de explotación forestal, ca. 8-10 km. en línea recta al N. de Sta. María, al N. del Río Verde y al S. del arroyo Hamaca., Oaxaca, Mexico, North America - Neotropics
Pendientes del filo del cerro c/selva alta de Terminalia, Guarea grandifolia, Byrsonima cotinifolia, Virola guatemalensis, Search this
Place:
Mpio. Sta. Ma. Chimalapa: Cresta del cerro ca. de la cabecera del Arroyo Cuusea (en zoque), región del R. Verde en área de expl. forestal, ca. 8-10 km en línea recta al N. de Sta. María, al N. del R. Verde &c., Oaxaca, Mexico, North America - Neotropics
This series includes photographic prints and copy negatives made across Mexico sometime around 1940, after Cordry was no longer working for the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. The photographs were included with additional gifts and exchanges with the MAI in 1940, 1941 and 1943. The prints include portraits of Tzotzil Maya women in San Bartolomé de los Llanos, Chiapas; Chinantec [Chinantla] women in Choapam, Oaxaca; Zoque men and women in Copainala and Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas; an Otomi fiesta in Chalma, Mexico; Yoreme (Mayo) man and woman in Huatabampo, Sonora; and a Zapotec woman in Villa Hidalgo (Yalálag), Oaxaca. There are also several images of Zoque masks Cordry collected and two photographs of watercolor paintings made by Cordry.
Access to NMAI Archive Center collections is by appointment only, Monday - Friday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment (phone: 301-238-1400, email: nmaiarchives@si.edu).
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiphotos@si.edu. For personal or classroom use, users are invited to download, print, photocopy, and distribute the images that are available online without prior written permission, provided that the files are not modified in any way, the Smithsonian Institution copyright notice (where applicable) is included, and the source of the image is identified as the National Museum of the American Indian. For more information please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use and NMAI Archive Center's Digital Image request website.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Donald B. Cordry photographs from Mexico, Item Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation Search this
Collection Director:
Heye, George G. (George Gustav), 1874-1957 Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Biographical / Historical:
From the time he was in high school, Donald B. Cordry (1907-1978) was deeply interested in set design and puppetry. He attended the Minneapolis Institute of Art and started carving wooden marionettes and hand puppets in his early twenties. In 1934 Cordry moved to New York and landed work as a marionette designer for the well-known and highly-respected puppeteer, Tony Sarg. By this time, Cordry had already made his first trip to Mexico, in 1931, where he had become fascinated by contemporary Mexican Indian art, especially mask making. In New York, Cordry sought out George G. Heye and collected for Heye from 1935 until 1938. On his first collecting trip for Heye, in 1935, Cordry traveled throughout the states of Michoacan and Guerrero collecting carved and painted dance masks.
Cordry married fellow artist, Dorothy Mann, in 1936 and traveled for six months through Nayarit, Jalisco and southern Sonora, photographing the Huichol, Cora and Mayo Indians, in addition to collecting extensively. The Cordries moved to Mexico in 1938 and Cordry established his own design business and produced Mexican folk art-style crafts for home decoration. Cordry also assembled an extensive library dealing with pre- and post-conquest Mexico and had become something of a self-styled ethnographer. Together with his wife, Cordry published Costumes and Textiles of the Aztec Indians of the Cuetzalan Region, Puebla, Mexico (1940); The Costumes and Weaving of the Zoque Indians of Chiapas, Mexico (1941); and, most importantly, Mexican Indian Costumes (1968). Cordry's monumental, Mexican Masks (1980), was published shortly after his death. Cordry died in Cuernavaca, Mexico at the age of 71.
Collection Restrictions:
Access to NMAI Archive Center collections is by appointment only, Monday - Friday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment (phone: 301-238-1400, email: nmaiarchives@si.edu).
Collection Rights:
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish or broadcast materials from the collection must be requested from the National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiarchives@si.edu.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation Records, Box and Folder Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
