Nahua - Blog Posts
being a reconnecting native is very difficult, I feel like especially if you’re like hispanic indigenous, i’m mexican native american and i’m trying to reconnect and find what tribe i’m from but tracking down my lineage on both sides is so hard, i feel stuck and like i don’t know where to start :/
Stone Statue from Tlaxcala, Mexico dated between 1000-1500 on display at the Weltmuseum in Vienna, Austria
The nose jewellery on the figure indicates his extremley elevated rank. Similar figures were excavated from Tula, once the capital of the Toltec Empire and home of the legendary ruler Quetzalcoatl. The Aztecs, Tlaxcaltecs and other Mesoamerican states revered and collected objects from the Toltecs and copied the Toltec style in their own art.
Photographs taken by myself 2022
today I learned that the Nahuatl word “coyotl” means simultaneously “coyote”, “yellow”, and “mixed race/mixed culture”