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Newspaper clipping taken from the Great Falls Daily Leader; talks about Charles M. Russell's life.

Description 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...

Description This is a visual record of the tributes paid by individuals from an unidentified Nahua town made circa 1550. The strip is divided into at least sixteen rows and is read from bottom to top. Each row shows the person(s) who provided the tributes, their personal names in pictographic form, and the items given. In registers 6, 8, and 12 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. The...

Description 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...

Description 4045.2574 and 4045.2581 are two fragments of the same tribute record. This is a visual record of the tributes paid by individuals from the town of Culhuacan made circa 1550. The top and the bottom of the strip are badly broken and damaged. The strip was torn in the middle into two fragments. This tribute record is divided into twenty-five rows and is read from bottom to top. Each row shows the person(s) who provided the tributes, their personal names in pictographic form, and the...

Description 4045.2574 and 4045.2581 are two fragments of the same tribute record. This is a visual record of the tributes paid by individuals from the town of Culhuacan made circa 1550. The top and the bottom of the strip are badly broken and damaged. The strip was torn in the middle into two fragments. This tribute record is divided into twenty-five rows and is read from bottom to top. Each row shows the person(s) who provided the tributes, their personal names in pictographic form, and the...

Description This is a visual record of the tributes paid by individuals from the town of Culhuacan made circa 1550. The strip is divided into eleven rows and is read from bottom to top. Each row shows the person(s) who provided the tributes, their personal names in pictographic form, and the items they provided. In the central panel are the two Indigenous rulers or gobernadores (governors) of Culhuacan, and an Indigenous judge holding a staff of office or topilli; the three of them are sitting...

Description This is a visual record of the tributes paid by individuals from the town of Culhuacan made circa 1550. This is likely part of a much longer strip; the bottom and top sections are quite damaged.  The extant part of this tribute record is divided into two columns; each column has six rows, making a total of twelve cells. The reading order is from bottom to top and from left to right. Each cell shows the person(s) who provided the tributes, their personal names in pictographic...

Description This is a visual record of the tributes paid by individuals from ten towns, including Huexotla, Tepetlaoztoc, Texcoco, Coatlinchan, and other unidentified towns. The artist included the place names or toponyms of each town.   This tribute record is divided into four large rows; some rows have 9 columns and others have 10. This pictorial record shows the tributes paid by the ten towns, most likely to the church, as two of the rows feature images of 10 different churches. The...