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Capturing Warfare
This exhibit highlights two representations of warfare from pre-Hispanic Andean South America and Mesoamerica.
Included are fineline drawings made from the images painted on ceramic vessels produced by the Moche, a culture that flourished on the north coast of Peru in the first centuries of the Common Era. The drawings, part of the Moche Archive, were created by Chris Donnan and Donna McClelland. For an example of the type of ceramic vessel from which these drawings derive, see this Stirrup Spout Bottle in the Dumbarton Oaks Museum.
The Lienzo de Quauhquechollan is a cartographic history, created by Nauhua painters, that tells the story of the conquest of Guatemala by the allied forces of the warriors of Quauhquecholteca and the Spanish. The creators of the document belonged to the Nahua community of Quauhquechollan, located in the region of present-day Puebla, Mexico. The Quauhquecholteca allied themselves with the Spanish to conquer the communities in what is now southern Mexico and Guatemala. This document portrays the 1527-1529 campaign of Spaniard Jorge de Alvarado, as seen by the Nahua warriors. The original Lienzo de Quauhquechollan is in the collection of the Museo Casa de Alfeñique, in Puebla, Mexico.