Focusing on the Prehispanic Panel of this artwork, discuss the Using a Codex about the Codices.
Using a Codex Many admire the Mixtec codices as works of art. García Bustos also shows us how they were used. In the image below, a leader is pointing out the meaning of three scenes from a Codex. Viewing the three images being pointed to from bottom to top, the first image is inspired by the Yuta Tnoho Codex as are the second, discussed earlier as well as the top image of corn.
John Pohl, an American academic, speculates that codices were portable scripts, or storyboards, for celebrating historical events. The codices could be displayed " while a poet recited the text to musical accompaniment, and actors in costume performed parts of the saga.
Mixtec celebrating