| The Zapotecs gave as a reason for interring the dead, that those who were burned failed to reach heaven. |
| 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 are the largest group, comprising more than 90 percent of Juchitans urban population. |
| A major feature of the transnational movement was the formation of ethnic enclaves by both Mixtecs and Zapotecs in major employment centers at destinations. |
| There are zapotes, the sapodilla plums from which the Aztecs and others derived their word for the Zapotecs. |
| 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. |
