By David Stuart (The University of Texas at Austin) Note: This unpublished paper was written back in 2008 on honor of the late Henry B. Nicholson, the great scholar of Aztec history and culture who was a good friend and eager supporter of…
At the time of the Spanish conquest, potters from central and southern Mexico were creating fine polychrome ceramics and decorating them in the same style as contemporary native painted books, specifically the Borgia group and Mixtec…