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Lienzo Seler II or Coixtlahuaca II is a complex pictographic document on cotton cloth from the sixteenth century in the Northern Mixteca region of Mexico. The Mixtec-Chocho-speaking native painter-scribes of the Lienzo Seler II depicted changing perceptions of space in Mesoamerica in the transition from the pre-Hispanic to the colonial era by using a new map-format but maintaining the ancient tradition of symbols. The Lienzo recently underwent extensive physical analysis and a systematic photographic survey resulting in the images shown in the first section of the volume followed by eleven essays written by a group of international scholars that explore the document from different perspectives.

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Dr. Maria Gaida specialized in Ancient American Studies at Hamburg University. She has been director of the Mesoamerican collection in the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin since 1993 and director of the department of collections since 1998. She is also co-publisher of the museum magazine Baessler-Archiv. Viola Koenig is the director of the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin and was the director of the UEbersee-Museum Bremen. She is a recipient of Mexico's Order of the Aztec Eagle.

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