This is a visual record of the tributes paid by individuals from an unidentified Nahua town made circa 1550. The strip is divided into fifteen rows and is read from bottom to top. It is broken at the bottom, so there may have been more rows. Each row shows the person(s) who provided the tributes, their personal names in pictographic form, and the items given. In registers 3, 8, 11, and 15 is an Indigenous gobernador (governor) named Coatl (Serpent) on a seat of woven reeds with a back rest or tepotzoicpalli, a sign of his rank and position. A Spanish official, perhaps the encomendero, appears on registers 6 and 10. On register 6, the Spanish official is sitting on a hip-joint armchair or jamuga, and holding a staff of office. In front of him are two men, named pictographically, they are: Ocelotl (Jaguar) and Miquiztli (Death), and the tributes they paid: three tomines (coins), and a live eagle.

Possible connection between this fragment and 4045.2583. Many of the individuals depicted appear in both tribute records. The style is similar as well.

Description provided by Ana Pulido Rull, PhD, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville