page_title: Lienzo de Quauhquechollan
hierarchical_section_title: Lienzo de Quauhquechollan
caption_attribution_description: English: Canak, or hands tree Chiranthodendron pentadactylon. Its leaves are used in certain tamales. It has medicinal properties. It is mentioned on the Cloth of Quauhquechollan. Español: Canak o Arbol de manitas Chiranthodendron pentadactylon. Las hojas se usan para envolver ciertos tamales en ocasiones especiales. Esta planta tiene propiedades medicinales. Se la menciona en el Lienzo de Quauhquechollan
context_page_description: The Lienzo de Quauhquechollan is a 16th-century lienzo of the Nahua, a group of indigenous peoples of Mexico. It is one of two surviving Nahua pictorial records recounting the Spanish conquest of Guatemala and the earliest surviving maps of what is now Guatemala.
  The Lienzo was probably painted in Ciudad Vieja, in the modern Guatemalan department of Sacatepéquez, by Nahua allies of the Spanish from the city of Quauhquechollan. These allies had assisted conquistador Jorge de Alvarado in his campaign of 1527 to 1529. The Quauhquechollan allies settled in the Guatemalan Highlands and the cloth records their participation in the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Guatemala. The original document is currently in the Museo Regional de Cholula, in Puebla in central Mexico.
  The Lienzo de Quauhquechollan was deciphered by the Dutch archaeologist Florine Asselbergs in 2002. She was the first to identify the cloth as depicting Jorge de Alvarado's campaign and to recognise the role of Quauhquechollan in the Spanish conquest. Her path-breaking work has been published in the book Conquered Conquistadors in 2004.
context_section_description: The Lienzo de Quauhquechollan ("Quauhquechollan Cloth") is a 16th-century lienzo (cloth painting) of the Nahua, a group of indigenous peoples of Mexico. It is one of two surviving Nahua pictorial records recounting the Spanish conquest of Guatemala and the earliest surviving maps of what is now Guatemala.
  The Lienzo was probably painted in Ciudad Vieja, in the modern Guatemalan department of Sacatepéquez, by Nahua allies of the Spanish from the city of Quauhquechollan (now known as San Martín Huaquechula). These allies had assisted conquistador Jorge de Alvarado in his campaign of 1527 to 1529. The Quauhquechollan allies settled in the Guatemalan Highlands and the cloth records their participation in the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Guatemala. The original document is currently in the Museo Regional de Cholula, in Puebla in central Mexico.
  The Lienzo de Quauhquechollan was deciphered by the Dutch archaeologist Florine Asselbergs (Leiden University, The Netherlands) in 2002. She was the first to identify the cloth as depicting Jorge de Alvarado's campaign and to recognise the role of Quauhquechollan in the Spanish conquest. Her path-breaking work has been published in the book Conquered Conquistadors in 2004. This book offers a detailed and fully contextualised analysis of the Lienzo and is considered one of the best books on the Spanish conquest of Guatemala. 
  In 2007, the Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala created a digitally restored version of the Lienzo de Quauhquechollan as part of its program 'Exploraciones sobre la Historia'. This version of the Lienzo is on display at the same university in the permanent exhibition 'Quauhquechollan, a chronicle of conquest', together with an image of the original Lienzo in real size. The exhibition offers a number of interactive ways to acquaint oneself with the Lienzo.
caption: Canak, or hands tree Chiranthodendron pentadactylon. Its leaves are used in certain tamales. It has medicinal properties. It is mentioned on the Lienzo de Quauhquechollan.
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