Describe the characteristics of the Spanish Colonizers in Oaxaca en la historia y en el mito's Colonial Panel.
Five characters on the left side of the panel contrast in dress to the people at the top of the page, illustrating the change in the composition of the population of Antequera during the colonial period. Observing clothes and skin color, three wearing bright clothes are Criollo people. Of the two darker-skinned women, the one wearing the black dress could be mestizo and the one carrying the lamp could be indigenous. including the one holding the lamp appear to be Mestizo. We see in these images the influence of the Mexican melting pot, where unlike some other western hemisphere colonization efforts, the cultures were blended in Antequera and later Oaxaca. Life was nevertheless dominated by a system of institutional discrimination in the form of casts.
mestizo Oaxaca Criollo people Mexica colonial Antequera Mestizo left