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There are few integral studies of the iconography produced by the Chalchihuites culture in its diverse expressions. In our research, therefore, we set out to analyze two main issues; first, to reach a definition of the petroglyph complex that is manifested in various sites around the Guadiana Valley, a central place for Chalchihuites culture in Durango; and, second, to relate the iconography present in Chalchihuites ceramics to those petroglyphs, which, we argue, are clearly interrelated, and so establish the bases for the integral study of the graphic expressions created by these groups along the northern frontier of Mesoamerica. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the iconographic construction of the image of the American Indian in Spain and Mexico. The analysis has been done using the History Textbooks in both countries in the period 1940- 1945. The aim of this report is to carry out a comparative study about one of the historical discourse items, the indian figure, as the historic-cultural identity component in the two countries. The analysis of the iconographic representation lets us appreciate, since a plastic point of view, the way in which these images contributed to shape this abstract and intangible entity that is the nation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]