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Cover illustration: Tlaxcalan. Genealogy and Land Record of Juan Tepetzin (Fragmento de las Mujeres), ca. 1575. © Brooklyn Museum, Charles Stewart Smith Memorial Fund and Henry L. Batterman Fund, 37.361
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ISSN 2590-3292
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