The Lienzo de Analco

Starting from 1521, the Spanish conquistadors and their native allies began the first of several decade lasting incursions into the northern highlands of what is now Oaxaca, Mexico. The process would be exhausting, difficult and extremely violent, due in no small part to the resistance of the locals, the Mixe and Zapotec; sturdy people in their ideals of independence and freedom of foreign authority, who would spark some of the most violent rebellions in mexican colonial history.
This is cover art I did for my archeology thesis on the "Lienzo de Analco", a Mesoamerican pictographic document made by the native allies of the conquistadors, The people illustrated represent the main factions of the manuscript, in order from left to right: a Mixe pikeman, a Zapotec pikeman, a Spanish conqueror and a Nahua conqueror.
*reupload after accidentaly deleting*