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Observations on Mexican history and archæology, with a special notice of Zapotec remains, as delineated in Mr. J. G. Sawkins's drawings of Mitla .. (1856)

Mayer, Brantz, 1809-1879, Sawkins, James Gay, 1806-1878 · [Washington, Smithsonian Institution] · leaf 28

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of worship and civic defences. There does not appear, however, to be any similarity between these ruins and the remains found in Yucatan and Chiapas, where the designs are much carved and ornamented, denoting, perhaps, a higher degree of luxury, taste, and civilization. The temples of Quiotepec,… … Remains near Tehuantepec, Oajaca. The most interesting, perhaps, of the architectural remains within the present bounds of Mexico, in Oajaca, are those of MitlA ; and, as it was not until the year 1494 that the Aztecs finally subdued the people of Mictla, in the province of Huaxaca,2 it is not…

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