"Red and White Bundle" is the nickname given to a location that is mentioned in several of the
Mesoamerican codices which provide historico-mythical accounts of events and genealogies of the
pre-Columbian Mixtec civilization
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 ...
, which was centered on the
Oaxacan region of central-southern
Mexico. The original
Mixtecan name of this location is unknown. Its reference by
Mesoamerica scholars as 'Red and White Bundle' derives from the appearance of the
toponymic
glyph
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associated with it in the pictorial Mixtec codices, such as the
Zouche-Nuttall,
Bodley and
Vindobonensis codices.
It was conquered by
Eight Deer Jaguar Claw around 1099 and was the home city of
Four Wind.
References
*Mann, Charles. 1491. New York; Random House, 2005.
Mixtec sites
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