200 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA
Figure 5.7 These paintings are from
a series illustrating different castas,or
social and ethnic categories, in
eighteenth-century New Spain. (A) A
Spanish man with an Indian woman
produce a mestizo child; (B) the child
of a Spanish man with an African
woman is a mulatto; (C) a man of
African descent and his Indian partner
produce a sambaigo,a category also
called zamboor sambo.Pedro Alonso
O’Crouley, A Description of the
Kingdom of New Spain,ed. and trans.
by Seán Galvin. San Francisco, CA:
John Howell Books, 1972.