Abstract

RIOJA MONTANO, Greby Uriel. INDIGENOUS WRITING SYSTEMS AROUND THE PICTOGRAPHIC AND SIGNOGRAPHIC CATECHISMS AIMARAS AND QUECHUAS IN LEATHER AND PAPER. Rev. Fuent. Cong. [online]. 2020, vol.14, n.65, pp. 40-58. ISSN 1997-4485.

The research studies the indigenous writing systems around Aymara and Quechua pictographic and sign cate-chisms on leather and paper, and carries out the historical, iconographic, state of conservation and value analysis of the manuscript catechisms that were found by the researcher Dick Ibarra Grasso, and which are currently part of the collection of Andean ideographic writings of the Institute of Anthropological Research and Museum of the Universidad Mayor de San Simón in Cochabamba, Bolivia. 1 These are pieces of unknown antiquity that, due to factors of various kinds , were altered and damaged, in some cases suffering loss of support, which, added to their iconographic complexity, prevented them from being previously studied, restored and interpreted. The purpose of the investigation of the manuscript catechisms that were found during the nineteenth century, is their historical value, revealing hitherto unknown and unknown aspects.

Keywords : Indigenous writing; Pictographic manuscripts; Conservation; Restoration.