Jaltepec

Jaltepec, known in Mixtec as Añute, was a lordship in the southern Nochixtlán valley of Oaxaca, a region of terraced hillsides and dry river valleys. Its ruling dynasty kept its ancestry and alliances in painted screenfold books, and the manuscript now called the Codex Selden follows that line from the tenth into the sixteenth century, recording marriages, conquests and the founding of towns. The lords of Jaltepec held land and tribute across the valley, and their painted genealogies show how the dynasty linked its towns to neighbouring Mixtec lordships through marriage and war.