The devil and the skirt: An iconographic inquiry into the pre-Hispanic nature of the tzitzimime

Ancient Mesoamerica

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-26

  Klein, Cecelia F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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