Mixtec
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The Mixtecs or Mixtecos are Indigenous Mesoamerican peoples of Mexico inhabiting the region known as La Mixteca of Oaxaca and Puebla as well as La Montaña Region and Costa Chica Regions of the state o
Jarabe Mixteco
Turquoise mosaic mask. Mixtec-Aztec, 1400–1521 AD
Plate 37 of the Codex Vindobonensis. The central scene supposedly depicts the origin of the Mixtecs as a people whose ancestors sprang from a tree.
Mixtec funerary mask; Grave No. 7, Monte Alban; Museum of Cultures of Oaxaca.
Mixtec culture
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The Mixtec culture was a pre-Columbian archaeological culture, corresponding to the ancestors of the Mixtec people; they called themselves Ñuu savi, which means "people or nation of the rain". It had
Mixtec
…Mexico inhabiting the region known as La Mixteca of Oaxaca and Puebla as well as La Montaña Region and Costa Chica Regions of the state of Guerrero. The Mixtec culture was the main Mixtec civilization, which lasted from around 1500 BCE until being conquered by the Spanish in 1523 CE. The Mixtec region is generally…
Landscape of the Acatlán valley, near San Jerónimo Xayacatlán (Lowland Mixteca Poblana).
Landscape of La Mixteca, near Nativitas Monte Verde (Oaxaca)
Red-on-Bayo pottery from the Highland Mixteca. Middle Preclassic Period. MNA Collection.