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Huastec

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Huastec (wäs`tĕk), indigenous people of the Pánuco Pánuco , river, c.315 mi (510 km) long, rising as the Santa María River in San Luis Potosí state, N central Mexico, and flowing generally east to empty into the Gulf of Mexico near Tampico. It is navigable for c.200 mi (322 km).
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 River basin, E Mexico. They speak a Mayan language but are isolated from the rest of the Mayan stock, from whom they may have been separated prior to the arrival of the Spanish. Their culture did not develop along with that of the Maya. They remained apart from the later civilizations of the central plateau, such as the Aztec. Huastecan music and dancing have influenced some of the musical folklore of Mexico. The contemporary Huastec population, maintaining aspects of their traditional culture and language, numbers about 80,000 in the areas of Veracruz and San Luis Potosí.

Bibliography

See R. Wauchope, Handbook of Middle American Indians, Vol. III: Ethnology (ed. by E. Z. Vogt, 1964).



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Specific topics include Honduran figurines and whistles in social context, style as cultural imperative in early Olmec figurines from two regions, new fire figurines and the iconography of penitence in Huastec art, the weeping baby and the Nahual corn spirit in Mexico's Huasteca Veracruzana, and a comparison of Aztec ceramic figurines with copal figurines from the Templo Mayor.
Herlihy and Smith explained the project, showed the community maps that resulted from their work with the Huasteca in San Luis Potosi, and emphasized the power of maps by describing how the Huastec communities had used maps.
Huastec Mayan Ethnobotany, University of Texas Press, Austin.
 
 
 
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