Mexicolore’s animation of the classic scene from the Tovar Manuscript of Mexica (Aztec) dancers moving anti-clockwise around the drummers
The singers and dancers present a lively scene. Rank is indicated by garments, hairstyle and jewellery (for example, special singers of hymns could wear a labret, or lip plug)
Image from the Codex Florentino, info from ‘Painting the Conquest’ by Serge Gruzinski