Mesoamerican ballgame (Codex Colombino folio 2)

The Codex Colombino is a part of a

Mixtec codex 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 ...

held in the collection of the

National Museum of Anthropology The National Museum of Anthropology ( es, Museo Nacional de Antropología, MNA) is a national museum of Mexico. It is the largest and most visited museum in Mexico. Located in the area between Paseo de la Reforma and Mahatma Gandhi Street withi ...

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. It is the only Mesoamerican codex that remains in

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territory. It deals with the genealogy, marriages and bellicose conquests of the

Mixtec 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 of Guerrero. The Mixtec Culture wa ...

lord

Eight Deer Jaguar Claw Eight Deer Jaguar Claw ( mix, Iya Nacuaa Teyusi Ñaña ), or 8 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 manuscripts. His surna ...

( fl. 11th century AD). The other half of the Colombino Codex is known as "Becker I", and was purchased by Phillip Becker, a German collector, from the Aja-Villagómez family in

Acatlán de Osorio Acatlán de Osorio is a city in the Mexican state of Puebla. The shortened name Acatlán, is commonly used to refer to the municipality of which it is the seat, and to the city itself. It is at an elevation of 1,213 m (3,981 ft). In the 200 ...

Puebla Puebla ( en, colony, settlement), officially Free and Sovereign State of Puebla ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Puebla), is one of the 32 states which comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 217 municipalities and its cap ...

. It is currently in

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. For that reason, the entire codex often goes by the name Codex Colombino-Becker. Several editions of both the ''Colombino'' and the ''Becker'' have been published. The most commonly used facsimile of the ''Colombino'' is accompanied by the commentary of

Alfonso Caso Alfonso Caso y Andrade (February 1, 1896 in Mexico City – November 30, 1970 in Mexico City) was an archaeologist who made important contributions to pre-Columbian studies in his native Mexico. Caso believed that the systematic study of ancient M ...

(1966), and that of the ''Becker'' by the notes of Karl A. Nowotny (1961). For some of the history depicted in the ''Colombino-Becker'', there are cognate accounts in other

Mixtec codices 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 ...

, particularly the Codex ''Zouche-Nuttall''.Troike, Nancy P. "Colombino-Becker, Codex." In Davíd Carrasco (ed).
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures
'. : Oxford University Press, 2001.

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* https://web.archive.org/web/20071219163600/http://www.tula.gob.mx/CONGRESO/CdiceColombino.html (image)
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* https://www-oxfordreference-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/view/10.1093/acref/9780195108156.001.0001/acref-9780195108156-e-134?rskey=xRon5X&result=134 Mixtec codices

Facsimile

Codices Becker I/II: Vienna, Museum for Ethnology, Inv.-Nr. 60306 und 60307, pre-colonial/1st half of the 16th century; Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt (ADEVA), Graz 1961. Truecolour facsimile edition of 20 pictograph pages in original size, leporello folding, mounted on cloth. In half leather portfolio. Commentary: K. A. Novotny (with English summary). CODICES SELECTI, Vol. IV.{{mesoamerica-stub

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