The Mixtec Group is the designation given by scholars to a number of mostly pre-Columbian documents from 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 of Guerrero, Costa Chica Regions of the state of Guerre ...
people of the state of
Oaxaca
Oaxaca, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca, is one of the 32 states that compose the political divisions of Mexico, Federative Entities of the Mexico, United Mexican States. It is divided into municipalities of Oaxaca, 570 munici ...
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-Nuttall
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 Mexico that are entirely pre-Columbian in origin ...
.
* The
Codex Selden.
* The
Codex Colombino-Becker.
* The
Codex Waecker-Gotter.
* The
Codex Vindobonensis (or Vienna, as it is sometimes called).
* The
Codex Bodley.
See also
*
Mixtec writing
External links
Mixtec Group codices
References
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