Tracing of Silvestre Vélez de Escalante's 1775 manuscript made by Irving B. Richman, (?)1908. Pictorial map showing the populations of Hopi pueblos in numbers of families. Based on map made for Vélez by an Indian named Cosnina.
AM reference: VAULT drawer Ayer MS map 229 Flower within oval design at top centre, '322' at upper right, and 'E' at bottom centre. Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America was originally published in 2013, as American Indian Histories and Cultures. The title was changed in 2024. Indigenous Peoples metadata has been supplied by exonym as these are the terms most commonly used in the documents. Updates are being made to metadata to reference preferred names wherever possible. For more information on our approach to language and metadata in the resource visit the Language Statement. Original manuscript forms part of Vélez's report dated October 28, 1775 in the Archivo General de la Nación in Mexico City. See their Catalogo de ilustraciones v. 1 (1979), p. 87 no. 219. Cf. H. E. Bolton's Pageant in the wilderness (1950), pp. 2-3.