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- W2321866235 abstract "The appearance of a definitive editionl of the Yanhuitian Codex, under the editorship of Wigberto Jimenez Moreno and Salvador Mateos Higuera, gives us a unique opportunity to learn something about the maize of southern Mexico immediately after the Spanish Conquest. This interesting Codex, which fascinates scholars by its naive blending of native and European techniques, provides us with a good deal of incidental information about the yields and uses of maize at that time and place. In addition, some of the delineations of the maize plant are so realistic as to be useful scientific evidence. Like many important codices, the Yanhuitlan Codex has had a checkered career, and its entire history is not known. The editors discuss the evidence in detail. The original of the document has been for a long time in the Academia de Bellas Artes in Puebla, Mexico. The exact date when it was placed there is not known, but in 1892 it was mentioned in a catalogue of the Mexican Exhibit of the American Historical Exposition in Madrid. Its history previous to this period and the reasons why it was brought to Puebla remain unknown. The Codex was written on paper of Spanish manufacture in the sixteenth century, and it bears a watermark used in Spain from about 1550 to 1570. The town of Yanhuitlan, whose history the Codex records, is located in the Mixteca Alta half-way between Nochistlan and Tepozcolula in the present state of Oaxaca. As the name Alta indicates, this is a high, cold region. The Codex is almost unquestionably of native workmanship. The drawings show both Spanish and Indian influence, and no Spanish-trained scholar of the time would have undertaken to write a history in such a form. The sketches are dated according to native pre-Conquest technique by characters and symbols identical with those used in pre-Conquest documents. Discussing the history of a Mixtec town, the work is annotated in Mixtec rather than in Spanish. From an artistic point of view (as well as an historical), the drawings in the Codex are significant because they appear' to have been sketched a very short time after the actual''events occurred, perhaps in the very sight of the subjects depicted. On the other h;and, the drawings show European influence as well. Pre-Conquest drawings have no perspective and solid figures are without shading to indicate contour. The perspective of buildings and moving figures in the drawings is imperfect, but it is 'frequently'attempted and people are sketched in with realistic shading. The drawin'g was done with pen. Shading appears to have been added" @default.
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- W2321866235 title "Maize in the Yanhuitlan Codex" @default.
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