Hello fellow Redditors! I am looking for an interesting primary source that I can analyze for a Colonial Latin America class. The more interesting and outlandish the better. Thank you! P.S. The time period ranges from 20,000 B.C. to 1880's as long as it's related to Latin America
Hey there!
What you're looking for is an incredibly broad range. What exactly are you using this source for? That would help us help you much better. While it would run against out rules on homework to straight out give you the source, we can definitely recommend some places to look.
If you are interested in archaeological artifacts, I can recommend:
The Museo Larco in Lima, Peru has 45,000 entries in its online catalog- it's in Spanish though, so you may have to use Google translate if that's not your thing. It's got good meta-data so you can search things like "bigote" and get all the ceramic vessels with mustaches you could ever want.
FAMSI maintains a searchable database of Justin Kerr's roll-out photos of Maya vases. This and the Larco are the best sites for looking for specific imagery, say, ballgames, maize gods, or the court of the underworld.
The Museo de Arte de Lima isn't as easily searchable due to the sheer volume of stuff, but is worth a browse. They've got good colonial art too, which the Larco doesn't.
The Mexican Museo Nacional de Antropología has a pretty presentation, but isn't searchable.
Google Arts and Culture is a severely underapprecaited gem of a service that compiles digital collections from museums around the world into one spot. Very easily searchable if you are looking for a specific kind of artifact, or one from a specific place.