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One of eight surviving pre-conquest manuscripts of the Mixtec people, the Codex Zouche-Nuttall contains a narrative history of Mixtec kings. On this page the thirty-four year old Eight-Deer (named, as was common, for his birth date in the 260-day sacred almanac) is granted the honor of ritual nose-perforation by Lord 4-Jaguar who faces him in the central upper panel. In the lower left a priest administers the nose perforation, legitimating Eight-Deer’s claim to the throne of the Mixtec kingdom of Tilantongo.
Reference:
Troike, Nancy (2006) “Zouche-Nuttall, Codex.” In David Carrasco, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures: The Civilizations of Mexico and Central America. Electronic Resource, http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195108156.001.0001/acref-9780195108156-e-736.
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9-2013
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Special Collections, University of Kentucky Libraries
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