Tarascan

Painted on pine panels mounted in an arch beneath the choir, the images were likely completed in the mid-1600s, less than 150 years after the first Franciscan missionaries arrived here in the Meseta Purépecha, or Tarascan Plateau, a highland region in the Michoacán state named for the Indigenous community that resides there.

The description says the collection contains Aztec, Mayan and Tarascan pieces.

The first Tarascan name is given in the spelling used by Tarascans followed by the phonetic equivalent in English in parentheses.

For the Tarascan "Empire" centering in the state of Michoac�n, a committee of Mexicans and citizens of the United States of America was formed to forward these aims.

Tarascan friends at Colonia Revoluci�n were eager to have the bodies of the skunks which we caught.