seated indigenous lord, Yacaqu

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seated indigenous lord, Yacaqu

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This figure represents ”yacaqu” (Mixtec personal, calendrical name, reading “Lord 1/2/3 Crocodile” or “Lord 1/2/3 Movement” according to Rodríguez Cano 2015: 101). It is possible that this lord arrived with the one seated above him, and that they thus both came from Tollan/Ñu Yoo. [Jesper Nielsen]