This is a visual record of the tributes paid by five individuals, possibly from the town of Papalotla (in present-day Estado de México) made circa 1550. The strip is divided into fifteen rows and is read from bottom to top. Each register shows the person(s) who provided the tributes on the left side of the strip, their personal names, and the items given. The same four men are depicted on each row, named pictographically; their names are: Tlantli, II?, Coatlan, Tonatiuh, and Calli. On the first row is the toponym or place name of Papalotla, a hill with a butterfly (papalotl, in Nahuatl) on its top. There are inscriptions in Nahuatl on each cell describing the tributes.

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