Mixtec Group
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The Mixtec Group is the designation given by scholars to a number of mostly pre-Columbian documents from the Mixtec
people of the state of Oaxaca
in the southern part of the Republic of Mexico. They are distinguished by their principally historical and geographical content.
Included in the Mixtec Group are:
Mixtec
The Mixtec are indigenous Mesoamerican peoples inhabiting the Mexican states of Oaxaca, Guerrero and Puebla in a region known as La Mixteca. The Mixtecan languages form an important branch of the Otomanguean language family....
people of the state of Oaxaca
Oaxaca
Oaxaca , , officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Oaxaca is one of the 31 states which, along with the Federal District, comprise the 32 federative entities of Mexico. It is divided into 571 municipalities; of which 418 are governed by the system of customs and traditions...
in the southern part of the Republic of Mexico. They are distinguished by their principally historical and geographical content.
Included in the Mixtec Group are:
- The Codex Zouche-NuttallCodex Zouche-NuttallThe Codex Zouche-Nuttall is an accordion-folded pre-Columbian piece of Mixtec writing, now in the British Museum . It is one of three codices that record the genealogies, alliances and conquests of several 11th and 12th-century rulers of a small Mixtec city-state in highland Oaxaca, the Tilantongo...
. - The Codex Selden.
- The Codex Colombino-Becker.
- The Codex Waecker Götter.
- The Codex VindobonensisCodex Vindobonensis Mexicanus ICodex Vindobonensis Mexicanus I, also known as Codex Vindobonensis C, or Codex Mexicanus I is an accordion-folded pre-Columbian piece of Mixtec writing. It is a ritual-calendrical and genealogical document dated to the 14th century.- Contents :...
(or Vienna, as it is sometimes called).