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...