xiv LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 4.8 The siege of Tenochtitlán. p. 174
Figure 4.9 Fighting in the city streets: Mexican warriors unhorse and kill
a Spanish soldier. p. 175
Figure 4.10 Conquest of Quetzaltenango, the place where the K’iche’ Mayan
leader, Tekum, was killed by the Spaniards. p. 178
Figure 5.1 The main Spanish colonial jurisdictions established in Mesoamerica
during the sixteenth century. p. 185
Figure 5.2 Indian textile workers in an obraje. p. 190
Figure 5.3 Indo-Christian art: A native artist painted this portrait of fray
Martín de Valencia, the leader of New Spain’s first official mission
of Franciscan friars, in the Franciscan friary at Tlalmanalco
(southeast of Mexico City); it probably dates to the late 1580s. p. 191
Figure 5.4 Colonial church in the town of San Pedro y San Pablo Teposcolula, Oaxaca. p. 193
Figure 5.5 The first page of a 1565 confession manual printed in both Spanish
and Nahuatl. p. 194
Figure 5.6 This relief by a native sculptor decorates a sixteenth-century chapel
in San Andrés Calpan, now in the state of Puebla, Mexico. p. 195
Figure 5.7 These paintings are from a series illustrating different castas,or
social and ethnic categories, in eighteenth-century New Spain. p. 200
Figure 5.8 The members of Mexico City’s native cabildoreceive staffs of office,
plus advice on good leadership, from Luis de Velasco, viceroy
of New Spain from 1551 to 1564. p. 204
Figure 5.9 These paintings from 1774 show the differences in dress between
(A) Indian caciques,or members of the native elite, and (B) commoners. p. 208
Figure 5.10 This woodcut from 1565 depicts a Franciscan priest presiding
over a native wedding ceremony. p. 209
Figure 5.11 Two Nahua cantores,or choir members, rehearse their music
in this native painting from the Florentine Codex. p. 213
Figure 5.12 Title page from the first published Nahuatl account of the
Our Lady of Guadalupe apparition legend. p. 215
Figure 6.1 This Classic Mayan relief sculpture, carved at the ancient city
of Palenque in A.D. 722, shows the apotheosis, or transformation
into a deity, of Kan-Xul, a ruler of Palenque. p. 224
Figure 6.2 Codex Borgia. p. 225
Figure 6.3 Codex Laud. p. 226
Figure 6.4 The frontispiece of the Codex Fejérváry-Mayer,depicting the layout of the earth
and the spatial distribution of the ritual calendar’s 260 days. p. 227
Figure 6.5 This scene from the Codex Viennadepicts part of the story
of Nine Wind, the Mixtec equivalent of the Aztec deity Quetzalcoatl. p. 228
Figure 6.6 Codex Dresden. p. 229
Figure 6.7 A page from the Codex Aubin,a year-count chronicling Mexica
history from A.D. 1168 to 1608. p. 231
Figure 6.8 A native artist’s map of the Nahua town of Tetlistaca, painted
in 1581 in response to a royal questionnaire. p. 231
Figure 6.9 Codex Borbonicus. p. 233
Figure 6.10 Codex Borbonicus. p. 234
Figure 6.11 Drawing of the frontispiece of the Codex Mendoza. p. 235
Figure 6.12 Codex Mendoza. p. 235
Figure 6.13 Florentine Codex. p. 236
Figure 6.14 Florentine Codex. p. 237