Tributes of Tzintzuntzan and Tlalpujava : manuscript, 1542-1552.

Unknown artist

1772

1 item (2 p.) : paper ; 92 x 43 cm.

Princeton Digital PUL

A manuscript page features rows of illustrations depicting boats, pottery, fruit, clothing, faces, and abstract symbols, with extensive handwritten text at the top and bottom. Decoration: The drawings are arranged in about 16 parallel horizontal lines. The drawings are outlined in black ink. The only other colors used are gray (used to color the hair of the Indians shown) and a faded yellow (used to color two different types of food). The drawings depict items of tribute and are typical of the conventionalized representations in Mexican Indian pictorial manuscripts of the mid-16th century. Among the items shown are (from top to bottom) 100 bowls (shown by five platters each surmounted by the Indian sign for 20, a flag-like device known as "pantli"), 30 large bowls (the decorated containers surmounted by t