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Published: 01 October 2021
Figure 7. Infrared imaging detail of X.011 enhances two speech scrolls above the right-facing eagle (cuāuhtli) between Xolotl and fellow Chichimec at Cuauhnahuac (7a). Dibble mistakenly identifies the Chichimec as Ocotoch, does note the speech scrolls, but misidentifies the bird as a turkey
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in The Tecolotl and the Chiquatli: Omens of Death and Transspecies Dialogues in the Aztec World
> Ethnohistory
Published: 01 July 2020
Figure 3. Codex Borbonicus, p. 12, detail of trecena 1—lizard, day 6—water. Lord of Night, Mictlantecuhtli; Lord of Day, Teoyaomiqui; flyer (iquechol) chicuatli. Source: Bibliothèque de l’Assemblée nationale.
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in The Tecolotl and the Chiquatli: Omens of Death and Transspecies Dialogues in the Aztec World
> Ethnohistory
Published: 01 July 2020
Figure 4. Codex Borbonicus, p. 12, detail of trecena 1—lizard. Day 10—reed. Lord of Night, Tlaloc; Lord of Day, Tezcatlipoca; flyer (iquechol) tecolotl. Source: Bibliothèque de l’Assemblée nationale.
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in The Tecolotl and the Chiquatli: Omens of Death and Transspecies Dialogues in the Aztec World
> Ethnohistory
Published: 01 July 2020
Figure 5. Tonalamatl Aubin, p. 20, detail of trecena 1—tochtli. Day 6—Acatl. Lord of Night, Xiuhtecutli; Lord of Day, Teoyaomiqui; flyer (iquechol) chicuatli. Courtesy of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Photo by Dina Cordova.
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in The Tecolotl and the Chiquatli: Omens of Death and Transspecies Dialogues in the Aztec World
> Ethnohistory
Published: 01 July 2020
Figure 6. Tonalamatl Aubin, p. 20, detail of trecena 1—tochtli. Day 10—Ollin. Lord of Night, Mictlantecutli; Lord of Day, Tezcatlipoca; flyer (iquechol) tecolotl. Courtesy of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Photo by Dina Cordova.
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Published: 01 July 2020
Figure 1. Chalchiuhtotolin (“Jade Turkey”). Codex Borbonicus, pg. 17 (detail). Source: Bibliothèque de l’Assemblée nationale.
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Published: 01 January 2021
Figure 7. Detail from White Swan’s circa 1880 robe. Photo courtesy of the Montana Historical Society, Museum Division, cat. no. 1978.38.105.
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Published: 01 January 2017
Figure 1. Detail from “Visite des Sauvages.” From du Tertre, Histoire générale , vol. 11, 395; image obtained from Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
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in Makers and Keepers of Networks: Amerindian Spaces, Migrations, and Exchanges in the Brazilian Amazon and French Guiana, 1600–1730
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Published: 01 October 2018
Figure 2. The coast of Amapá ca.1625. Detail from anonymous map, courtesy of the Nationaal Archief, The Netherlands
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in Pedro de Alvarado, Tonatiuh: Reconsidering Apotheosis in Nahua and Highland Maya Narratives of the Spanish Invasion
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Published: 01 January 2022
Figure 5. A probable portrait of Pedro de Alvarado carrying a solar shield. Detail of f. 250v from the Relación Geográfica de Tlaxcala by Diego Muñoz Camargo. Courtesy of University of Glasgow Library Archives and Special Collections, MS Hunter 242, through Margarita Cossich Vielman, Antonio
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in Pedro de Alvarado, Tonatiuh: Reconsidering Apotheosis in Nahua and Highland Maya Narratives of the Spanish Invasion
> Ethnohistory
Published: 01 January 2022
Figure 6. Death of Pedro de Alvarado in the year 10 House, 1541. Detail from Codex Telleriano-Remensis, f. 46r. Courtesy of Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
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Ethnohistory (2017) 64 (2): 241–270.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Néstor I. Quiroa Abstract The Popol Vuh represents the most studied indigenous text of Mesoamerica, with its breadth of detail concerning Maya worldview, religion, cosmology, and society. Regarded as an ethnohistorical treasure, this narrative has been read exclusively as a freestanding, self...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (3): 469–495.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Mallory E. Matsumoto Abstract The colonial-era documents commonly referred to as títulos were composed in Maya communities of the Guatemalan highlands in the context of significant societal change following the initial Spanish conquests in the region in 1524. Based on detailed analysis of five...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (2): 381–413.
Published: 01 April 2016
...Stephanie Mawson Abstract Philippine indios served in the Spanish armies in the thousands in expeditions of conquest and defense across Spain’s Pacific possessions, often significantly outnumbering their Spanish counterparts. Based on detailed archival evidence presented for the first time...
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Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (2): 227–268.
Published: 01 April 2009
... Maya during colonial times. They provide detailed, sometimes daily, records of the impact of famines caused by multiyear droughts, hurricanes, and plagues of locusts on the agrarian population of the peninsula, which supplement the brief, impressionistic accounts of historians. American Society...
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (4): 523–569.
Published: 01 October 2010
... Alaska few people are aware of it. Local oral histories tell of the war, and archaeological and historical sources provide complementary details. This article documents war events and techniques for war for one specific area: the Triangle in Yup'ik Alaska. American Society for Ethnohistory 2010...
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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (2): 183–201.
Published: 01 April 2008
... of aboriginal peoples. A particular examination of Speck's attempts to help resolve the longstanding struggles of the Six Nations of Grand River during the early 1900s provides a more detailed context to the practical and applied nature of his work. This further strengthens an understanding of Speck...
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Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (1): 35–67.
Published: 01 January 2007
...Zeb Tortorici This essay focuses on a 1604 document from Morelia's criminal archive dealing initially with the prosecution of two Purépecha men accused of committing sodomy in a temascal . Attention is paid to individual testimonies and details surrounding sexual acts between the men...
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Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (2): 223–244.
Published: 01 April 2007
...Seth Mallios Historical narratives describing the demise of a sixteenth-century Jesuit mission on the Chesapeake grew from direct accounts of indigenous murder to elaborate constructions of the missionaries' divine sacrifice. A seriation of details from the seven contemporary Jesuit sources...
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