Los Nahuas. Entre la Huasteca y la Sierra

The first section belongs to Claude Stresser-Péan, the anthropologist whose digs, fieldwork and close ties with local communities added much to what is known of the Huasteca and the Sierra Norte de Puebla. The rest of the show covers her territory: Nahua towns spread from the Sierra Madre Oriental down to the Gulf coast.

You then walk into ritual: dance, ritual theatre, sacred music and cut paper, the ways these communities deal with natural beings, the dead and other forces. The route ends on textiles, which the museum presents as the region's artistic and intellectual work. Markets are among the ties it traces between highland and coast, and tianguis, the word for this city's street markets, is Nahuatl.

The show grew out of a scholarly colloquium on Nahua studies and is built from archaeological and ethnographic objects. It sits in the annex beside the Textiles hall, included in the MXN 210 museum ticket, until the end of November.