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i x m a p s a n d i m a g e s Maps Map 1: Aztec Empire and Surrounding Region (Molly O’Halloran) 15 Map 2: Tenochtitlan and the Ceremonial Precinct (Molly O’Halloran after Townsend) 16 Figures 0.1. Morisco dance. Das Trachtenbuch des Christoph Weiditz (1529) 8 0.2. Aztec acrobat in Spain. Das Trachtenbuch des Christoph Weiditz (1529) 10–11 0.3. Ollin (movement). Codex Telleriano-Remensis (ca. 1554) 19 0.4. Cihuateteo. Codex Borgia (ca. 1400) 21 1.1. Vespucci in Paria. Theodor de Bry, America, part 10 (1619) 26 1.2. Voladores. Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Historia general y natural de las Indias (ca. 1535) 37 2.1. Netotiliztli. Pieter van der Aa, Naaukeurige versameling . . . , vol. 9, part 1 (1707) 52 2.2. Macehualiztli. Pieter van der Aa, Naaukeurige versameling . . . , vol. 9, part 2 (1707) 53 3.1. Aztec dancers and musicians. Florentine Codex (ca. 1570) 65 3.2. Instruments and equipment for the dance. Florentine Codex (ca. 1570) 66 3.3. The tlatoani’s dance array. Florentine Codex (ca. 1570) 66 3.4. Atamalcualiztli. Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros memoriales (ca. 1560) 69 3.5. Tlacaxipehualiztli. Florentine Codex (ca. 1570) 73 3.6. Tlacaxipehualiztli. Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros memoriales (ca. 1560) 74 3.7. Discipline during Huey Tecuilhuitl. Florentine Codex (ca. 1570) 79 3.8. Thief dancing with forearm. Florentine Codex (ca. 1570) 82 3.9. Ochpaniztli. Florentine Codex (ca. 1570) 84 4.1. First encounter between Cortés and Montezuma. Bartolomé de las Casas, A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies (1598) 105 x d a n c i n g t h e n e w w o r l d 4.2. Montezuma watches as conquistadors attack his court dancers. Bartolomé de las Casas, A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies (1598) 106 4.3. The Massacre at the Festival of Toxcatl. Theodor de Bry, America, part 5 (1595) 107 4.4. The knight dances with Death. Hans Holbein, Dance of Death (1538) 108 4.5. The Massacre at the Festival of Toxcatl. Diego Durán, History of the Indies of New Spain (ca. 1581) 111 4.6. Drummer, conquistador, and Aztec warrior at Templo Mayor. Códice Aubin (ca. 1576) 116 4.7. Conquistadors dismembering Aztec drummer and decapitating Aztec dancer. Florentine Codex (ca. 1570) 117 4.8. Falling from the Templo Mayor. Florentine Codex (ca. 1570) 118 4.9. Encounter at the Templo Mayor. Codex Azcatítlan (ca. 1575) 120–121 4.10. Coyolxauhqui Stone. Museo del Templo Mayor, Mexico City (15th century) 122 4.11. “Dance of the Indians” at the Templo Mayor. Gerónimo de Mendieta, Historia eclesiástica indiana (1595) 124 4.12. “The Great Temple of Mexico.” J. Fuller at the Dove in Creed-Lane, The American Traveller (1741) 125 4.13. “The Rejoicings of the Mexicans, at the Beginning of the Age.” John Hamilton Moore, A New and Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 2 (ca. 1785) 126 5.1. Eagle and jaguar warriors dancing before the Spaniards. Códice de Tlatelolco (ca. 1560) 129 5.2. Dance leader in Xocotl Huetzi. Diego Durán, Book of the Gods and Rites (ca. 1575) 135 5.3. Dancing at the cuicacalli. Diego Durán, Book of the Gods and Rites (ca. 1575) 137 5.4. Xochipilli, “The God of Dance.” Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City 139 5.5. Xochipilli and Xochiquetzal. Codex Borgia (ca. 1400) 140 5.6. Xochipilli drumming and Huehuecoyotl dancing and singing. Codex Borbonicus (ca. 1520) 141 5.7. “Of All the Manners of Strange Dances Among the Indians.” Theodor de Bry, America, part 9 (1601) 142 5.8. Dance of the Emperor. Crónica de Michoacán (ca. 1788) 144 5.9. Dance of the Emperor Montezuma. Joaquín Antonio de Basarás y Garaygorta, Origen, costumbres, y estado presente de mexicanos y philipinos (1763) 145 5.10. Missionaries gazing at voladores and baptism. Codex Azcatítlan (ca. 1575) 147 ...

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