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...