Huastec
Americannoun
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a member of an Indigenous people of Mexico.
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the Mayan language of the Huastec.
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Origin of Huastec
First recorded in 1835–45; from Mexican Spanish huasteco from Nahuatl huāxtēcatl “person from Huāxtlān, ” equivalent to huāx(in), a tropical tree that produces edible pods + -tlān locative suffix + -tēcatl suffix of ethnic names
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“This is a very important piece,” said archaeologist Sara Ladron de Guevara, a scholar of Mexico’s Huastec culture, pointing in particular to the cross-shaped open mouth.
From Reuters ● May 27, 2023
It is believed that the sculpture depicts a leading female member of the Huastec people at the time of its creation.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2021
High in these hills lie the ancestral lands of the Huastec people, with villages, coffee farms, rugged slopes and powerful waterfalls.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 31, 2017
Sahagun says that it was applied particularly to the Huastecs, a Maya tribe living in the province of Panuco.
From American Hero-Myths A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent by Brinton, Daniel Garrison
The theory is that the Mayas came from the north and that the Huastecs were left behind in the migration southward.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various
The attack was made by the Aztecs, for the alleged reason that the Huastecs had robbed and killed Aztec merchants on their way to the great fairs in Guatemala.
From The Maya Chronicles Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1 by Brinton, Daniel Garrison
The annals of the Aztecs contain frequent allusions to the Huastecs.
From The Maya Chronicles Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1 by Brinton, Daniel Garrison
The Aztec traditions refer to the Huastecs, and a brief analysis of them will not be out of place.
From The Maya Chronicles Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1 by Brinton, Daniel Garrison
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