Eight Deer Jaguar Claw
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Eight Deer Jaguar Claw, or Eight Deer for brevity, was a powerful Mixtec ruler in 11th-century Oaxaca referred to in the 15th-century deerskin manuscript Codex Zouche-Nuttall, and other Mixtec manuscr
Codex Zouche-Nuttall, Mixtec pictorial codex, which is the main source of knowledge about Eight Deer Jaguar Claw
Codex Zouche-Nuttall
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The Codex Zouche-Nuttall or Codex Tonindeye is an accordion-folded pre-Columbian document of Mixtec pictography, now in the collections of the British Museum. It is one of about 16 manuscripts from Me
Eight Deer Jaguar Claw
…Eight Deer for brevity, (5 October 1063 - 1115) was a powerful Mixtec ruler in 11th-century Oaxaca referred to in the 15th-century deerskin manuscript Codex Zouche-Nuttall, and other Mixtec manuscripts. His surname is alternatively translated Tiger-Claw and Ocelot-Claw. Born on the Mixtec Calendar date from which he got…
Detail of page 20 from the codex
Two pages of the Codex Zouche-Nuttall, as displayed at the British Museum in 2008
Ballcourt in the Codex Nuttall. Drawing by Lacambalam.