| Other Central Mexican peoples included the Mixtecs, the Zapotecs, and people in the Valley of Oaxaca. |
| Under Spanish rule, the Zapotecs not only survived, but flourished, unlike the other two. |
| The sculptures depict the sacred symbolism used in the costumes of the Zapotecs and Mixtecs, two of the main pre-Hispanic societies of Mexico's southern state of Oaxaca. |
| The Zapotecs of Mexico believed that the owl was associated with death, in that it gives notice when a man dies before flying off to retrieve his soul. |
| The Zapotecs are the largest group, comprising more than 90 percent of Juchitans urban population. |
| There are zapotes, the sapodilla plums from which the Aztecs and others derived their word for the Zapotecs. |
