Putla de Guerrero Ñuu Caa Ñuu Ñuma poch-tli: smoke -tlán:: place of, at "Place of Smoke" ñuu: place, town caa: metal [represented here by axes] "Town of Metal" ñuu: place, town ñuma: smoke "Town of Smoke" Mary Elizabeth Smith, Picture Writing in Ancient Southern Mexico: Mixtec Place Signs and Maps, Civilization of the American Indian Series 124 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1973) 97-98. Lienzo of Zacatepec I.