codex;
map
- Museum number
- Am2006,Ptg.30088
- Title
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Object: Lienzo de Metlatoyuca
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Object: Mapa de Metlatoyuca
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Object: Codex of Huachinango
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Object: Plano mixto de un Pueblo en el Distrito de Huachinango
- Description
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Codex of Huachinango; a map painted on cotton cloth. The lienzo is said to have been found in archaeological ruins near Metlatoyuca in 1865 or 1866. It shows seventy-nine Indians in genealogical relationships with personal as well as calendrical name glyphs, several rivers and roads, and place glyphs. Its style is similar to that of the Papers of Itzcuintepec.
- Production date
- 19thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 180 centimetres
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Width: 105 centimetres (page)
- Curator's comments
- This object was purchased originally by the Manuscripts Department of the British Museum
[now British Library] from a Simon Stevens on 22 July 1876 who in turn had purchased it from a Porter C. Bliss. See letter in book dated June 5th 1872 in Eth Doc 658 in AOA archives.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- good
- Acquisition date
- 2006
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am2006,Ptg.30088
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: BM Add. MSS 30088
