Image from the Lord Kingsborough Antiquities of Mexico, photographed from the hand-colored originals, housed in the Dolores and John Mitchell Special Collections Room, the J.E. and L.E. Mabee Library, University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, Texas.
he ideal Aztec woman dressed simply. Cleanliness and graceful composure were her best adornments. During her years as a wife and mother, she was busy caring for children, cooking, and weaving. Women could own property and conduct business: midwives, healers, and priestesses enjoyed a high degree of professional independence. Old women were highly respected and played important family roles, such as matchmakers. Like old men, they had earned the right to drink pulque, an alchoholic beverage forbidden to any but elders. At banquets they were given seats of honor and asked to give long speeches.
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