Casa de la Cacica
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Casa de la Cacica | |
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Town | Teposcolula, Oaxaca |
Country | Mexico |
The Caca de la Cacica is a 16th century Mixtec palace in Teposcolula, Oaxaca, Mexico.
Its current name, meaning "house of the cacica" in Spanish, may refer to doña Catalina de Peralta who took possession of the palace in 1569.[1]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Terraciano (2001): p. 160.
[edit] References
- Kiracofe, James B. (1995). "Architectural Fusion and Indigenous Ideology in Early Colonial Teposcolula: The Casa de la Cacica: A Building at the Edge of Oblivion". Anales de Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas 17 (66): 45–84.
- Terraciano, Kevin (2001). The Mixtecs of Colonial Oaxaca: Ñudzahui History, Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-3756-8. OCLC 45861953.