Images of Alfonso Caso Codex, the life of 8 Venado, Cultures Museum Oaxaca Mexico

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Colombino-Becker I is the name given to the Colombino Codex and the Becker I Codex, two pre-Hispanic manuscripts belonging to the Mixtec culture that originally formed part of the same document. It was made in Tututepec, in the current Mexican state of Oaxaca. For unknown reasons it was divided into two parts. The Columbian Codex was published in 24 lithographs in 1892 by the Junta Colombina, which was in charge of commemorating the 4th Centenary of the Discovery of America. Under the protection of the National Library of Anthropology and History, it is the only pre-Hispanic codex that remains in Mexico. The Becker I Codex left Mexico in the hands of the German collector Philipp Becker, after whose death it was donated to the Museum of Ethnology in Vienna, Austria. In 1891, Henri de Saussure published the lithographs of what we know today as the Becker I Codex under the name Manuscrito del Cacique. Alfonso Caso demonstrated that both codices are fragments of a single one. In the 1996 edition of the codices by Miguel León Portilla, the fragments were reunited under the name Códice Alfonso Caso

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Size: 7008px × 4672px
Location: Museo de las Culturas Oaxaca
Photo credit: © Diana Sanchez / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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