Chadwick, Robert (1930- ) Papers
(Collection 101)
Collection Guide
Prepared by Ruth Olivera, January 1993. Expanded and revised, July 1996 and February 1997.
Expanded by David Dressing, October 2002. Robert Chadwick obtained his Ph.D. in anthropology from Tulane University in 1974. His dissertation, directed by Professor Wauchope, was titled "The Archaeology of a New World Merchant Culture". The collection consists of a number of his unpublished works on pre-Columbian culture with relevant correspondence, illustrations, photographs of excavations at Teotihuacan, and three published articles.
At one time or another Chadwick gave a number of his papers to Donald Robertson. They were subsequently saved by Martha Robertson, who recognized their value. She then turned most of them over the Latin American Library to from the Chadwick Papers, and the rest of the papers arrived following her death.
Robert Chadwick provided the Resume of his academic career that appears in the Appendix (see printed Collection Guide). It contains additional lists of his published and unpublished works.
Unpublished Works
Box 1. Unpublished works, 1964-1969.
Folders 1-2
1964, December 5. Unpublished typewritten report "Excavación y reconstrucción de la Pirámide del Sol, 1963-1965", on a project conducted by the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Proyecto Teotihuacan of Mexico. The report is divided into two parts, Libro I and Libro II, and has 166 pages, of which 70 are text. It includes 109 excellent black and white photographs of the work as it progressed. There are numerous notes and revisions.
Folder 3
[1964] Eight sketches and plans included with the above report which show the area at Teotihuacan excavated and reconstructed and some of the artifacts discovered. In LAL Oversize Box 2.
Folder 4
[1964] A photocopy of a 17-page summary of the above report labeled "For private use only" and "Not for publication". Although at one time Chadwick's report was to be published by INAH as a monograph, as indicated on this summary and on page 5 of the Resume, this was not done. A two-page report by Chadwick and Carlos Tirso Serna on "Plaza de la Pirámide del Sol, Zona 5-B" was published inthe Boletín del INAH No. 12, June 1962, as listed on page 3 of the Resume.
Folder 5
1966. "The Ethnohistory of the Tehuacan Valley", by Rovert Chadwick and R.S. Macneish. Photocopy of a typewritten paper, 109 pages.
Folder 6
1966. "Posibles glifos de Teotihuacan en el Códice Bodley". Carbon copy of a typewritten paper, 11 pages.
Folder 7
1967. "Estudio de los toponímicos en los códices mixtecos". Typewritten paper for Anthropology 771 under professor Robertson, with a grade of A+, 84 pages. Included is a TLS by Chadwick to Alfonso Caso on possible publication.
Folder 8
C.1969. Analysis of the Standard Fruit and Steamship Company, New Orleans, Pre-Columbian Collection". Photocopy of a catalog prepared by Chadwick of the stone, ceramic and semi-precious artifacts found in north-eastern Costa Rica and studied by a professional archeologist, 43 pages. Pages 34-42, the exhibit display labels, are missing.
Box 2. Unpublished works, 1975-1979, published works, 1971.
Folder 1
1975. "Toward a Theory of Trans-Atlantic Difussion". Photocopy of a monograph in which Chadwick makes the case that there were several trans-Atlantic incursions to the New World prior to the European contact of the 15th century, 82 pages. There are nine letters of opinions on this monograph by various authorities to whom Chadwick had submitted copies for evaluation and suggestions about publication.
Folders 2-12
1979, April. Notebook assembled from eleven separate unpublished articles written at various times and given the collective name "El fin del mundo clásico en el México-Central: los casos de Teotihuacan, Cholula, y Xochicalco". Pages are numbered consecutively and total 325. The articles are in typewritten, carbon, mimeographed, or photocopy form.
The following is the description of each folder:
Folder 2. 1967. "Identificación de los glifos de Cuitlahuac, Malinalco y Chalco en los códices mixtecos". Pages 1-85. See also Folder 9. Folder 3. n.d. "The Meaning of a Probable Eclipse in Codex Vindabonensis". Pages 86-117. Folder 4. 1965. "A reappraisal of the Fall of Teotihuacan", and Abstract. Pages 118-127. Included is another unnumbered version. Folder 5. 1967. "A Possible Pre-Columbian origin of the La Llorona tale. Pages 128-159. Folder 6. 1968. "Rethinking the Quetzalcoatl Myth". Pages 160-191. Folder 7. 1968. "The Possible Origin of the Mexican Feast called 'Ochpaniztli'." Pages 192-232. Folder 8. 1967. "Un posible glifo de Cholula en el Códice Nuttall. Identificación de los lugares CRANEO Y EXCREMENTO". Pages 233-270. See also folder 11. Folder 9. 1967. n.d. "Identificacion de los glifos de Cuitlahuac, Malinalco y Chalco en los códices mixtecos". Pages 271-304A. There are four additioinal pages of hadwritten notes at the end. See also Folder 2. Folder 10. 1966. "Story of the 8 DeerFamily". Pages 305-315. Folder 11. 1966. "A Possible Gluph for Cholula in the Codex Nuttall". Pages 316-323. See also Folder 8. Folder 12. 1979, April 14. Additional notes for the Cholula Gyph paper. Pages 324-325A, plus 17 photocopy pages of the Introduction to the Codex Nutall by Zelia Nuttall (1902).
Folder 13
1967-1978. Miscellaneous material contained in the notebook: a colored illustration of the mural paintings from the Temple of the Warriors, Chichen Itza, Yucatan, taken out of a publication; an unidentified 8x10 black and white photograph of a stone face; a photocopy of an article "Consummation of Quetzacoatl: Transits of Venus in Mexican Inscriptions," by Cottie Arthur Burland; and the typewritten, carbon draft of an article "The Codex Nuttall: Universal Epic or Narrow Nationalism," by John Molloy, Hugh G. Ball, and William B. Kessell. Also included in this folder is a black and white snapshot of Robert Chadwick and Donald Robertson taken in the 1970s by Martha Robertson at Doris Stone's guest house on her estate.
Folder 14
1971. Articles published in Vols. 10 and 11 of the Handbook of Middle American Indians :
"Postclassic pottery of the Central Valleys." Typewritten, carbon manuscript. 40 pages.
"Native Pre-Aztec History of Central Mexico." Photocopy of the galley of the published work. 19 pages of galley (30 pages in published work), with a note to Donald Robertson.
"Archaeological Synthesis of Michoacan." Corrected galley of the published work. 17 pages.
Folder 15
Bound volume of 93 pages of photocopies titled "Citations and reviews of Robert Chadwick's writings 1964-1978 (selected sample) compiled by Robert Chadwick, New York, 1979; Robert Chadwick 3-11-80; reread 5/13/96." Also contains a copy of the Spanish reprint of Chadwick's original 1966 article "The 'Olmeca-Xicallanca' of Teotihuacan: A Preliminary Study," Mesoamerican Notes 7-8. Mexico: University of the Americas. This Spanish version is published in: Antología de Cacaxtla: v.1 (Mexico: INAH, 1995).
Folder 16
A copy of the Resume provided by Robert Chadwick is included in Box 2 of the Collection as well as in the Collection Guide.
