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Costume Analysis and the Provenience of the Borgia Group Codices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Patricia Anawalt
Patricia Anawalt*
Affiliation:
Museum of Cultural History, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90024
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Abstract

There are indications that future archaeological investigations of the Late Postclassic horizon of the central and eastern Gulf Coast will reveal the existence of several regional artistic subtraditions of the prevailing Mixteca-Puebla horizon style. This would discourage the current pan-"Mixtec" approach to the interpretation of Postclassic Mesoamerican culture. A consequence of this presently confusing practice is the provenience debate concerning the religious Borgia Group codices. An abstract method of costume analysis indicates that these pictorial manuscripts did not originate in the Mixteca because they do not display Mixtec ritual clothing patterns. Data from the costume analysis, together with internal clues from the codices and archaeological and ethnohistorical evidence, demonstrate that the Borgia Group codices had diverse origins. The general Puebla-Tlaxcala region is suggested as the probable homeland for codices Borgia, Cospi, and Vaticanus B. The stylistic twins, Fejervary-Mayer and Laud, are assigned to the eastern Gulf Coast.

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American Antiquity , Volume 46 , Issue 4 , October 1981 , pp. 837 - 852
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1981

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