Cave, City, and Eagle's Nest: An Interpretive Journey Through the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2

by Davíd Carrasco and Scott Sessions

Book Overview

Cave, City, And Eagle's Nest is the culmination of an international research project and series of conferences, organized by the Moses Mesoamerican Archive, focused on the sixteenth-century pictorial manuscript known as the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2. Painted on bark paper and measuring 109 x 204 centimeters, this extraordinary document contains over seven hundred images and symbols relating the story of the emergence of ancestors at Chicomoztoc (Place...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826342833
• ISBN13: 9780826342836
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 503 Pages
• Weight: 6.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 9.2" x 11.8"