codex
- Museum number
- Am1996,Q.1
- Title
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Object: Genealogy of Huitznahuac Calpulli
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Object: Genealogía de un noble Azteca
- Description
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Codex; single sheet of paper with drawings of forty one heads and foot prints which shows the genealogy of a noble family. Each person is accompanied by his Nahuatl name written in alphabetic script. The last people shown are accompanied by Spanish names and titles.
- Production date
- 16thC(late)-17thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 68 centimetres
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Width: 35.40 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Found unnumbered in the Ethnography Department collections. Apparently part of the Christy Collection; date and means of acquisition unknown. See C.A. Burland "Ancient Mexican Documents in Great Britain", in "Man", May 1957, p.76.
Bibliography: Brotherston 1995 p.179.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Fragile and torn paper mounted on card.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1996,Q.1
