MEXICAN FOLKWAYS. REVISTA TRIMESTRAL DEDICADA A USOS Y COSTUMBRES MEXICANAS, VOL. VI, N°. 1-4 (1930); Frances Toor, Editor ; Diego Rivera Art Editor. Numbers: January - March 1929; April - June 1929;July - September 1929; October-December 1929

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  • México, D.F.: Mexican Folkways, 1930
By Toor, Frances and Diego Rivera (Eds)
México, D.F.: Mexican Folkways, 1930. (Rear wrappers of numbers 1,4 are lacking; very light wear to edges of binding). b/w and color plates, facs., draws., ports., mus. notes, advts., wrps. BOUND TOGETHER IN ORIGINAL PUBLISHER PICTORIAL TAN BUCKRAM BINDING. N°. 1, (January -- March, 1930): Musica del Antiguo Jarabe -- Música y Versos para el Jarabe moderno -- El Jarabe Antiguo y moderno -- Ritos Zapotecos de Año Nuevo -- Exposiciones de la Galería Moderna -- Exposición de Carlos Mérida. N°. 2 (April -- June, 1930): Las Artes Populares de México / by René d'Harnoncourt -- Mardonio Magaña / by Diego Rivera -- La Fiesta de Santa Veracruz de Taxco / Frances Toor -- La Pasión en Ixtapalapa / Frances Toor -- Penitentes de Noxtepec, Gro. /Thomas A Hanforth -- Los Inditios de Corpus -- Book Reviews: "Tepozotlán and Middletown" / by Carleton Velas -- "The Mexican Agrarian Revolution" / Manuel Gamio -- Veinte Litografias de Taxco. N°. 3 (July -- September, 1930) Much of issue is devoted to death. Contents: Notas sobre las Canacuas / by Frances Toor -- Canacuas, Danza Antigua de Guris / by Francisco Domínguez -- Las Canacuas / by Ángela Alcaraz -- La Música de las Canacuas / Armonizada por Francisco Domínguez -- Sobre Entierros / by Frances Toor -- La Muerte y los Funerales / by E. R. Valdivieso -- Culto a los muertos entre los antiguos Mayas / by R.J. Ceballos Navelo -- Entierro de un angelito / Elsie Clews Parsons -- Creencias sobre entierros en Chicomcuac / told by León Venado -- Ceremonias fúnebres entre los Totonacas / J. J. Nuñez y Domínguez -- Hallazgo de un tesoro Arqueológico / Eduardo Noguero. Drawings by Laura van Pappelendam, León Venado and photographs by Edward Weston. N°. 4 (October -- December, 1930) Homenaje a Diego Rivera / Frances Toor -- Diego Rivera / Wm. Spratling -- Triste despedida de Emiliano Zapata -- Arte , música y drama mexiquense. Photographs of the frescoes by Manuel Álvarez Bravo. ENGLISH AND SPANISH TEXT.

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