COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Accession number:
29022
Record number:
29022-10
JCB call number:
Codex Ind 1 /1-SIZE
Image title:
[Two deer climb a mountain, a Mexican and European discourse]
Place image published:
[Mexico City, Mexico?]
Image date:
[between 1700 and 1748]
Image function:
illustration; leaf [10v]-[11r]
Technique:
manuscript, watercolor
Image dimension height:
23.2 cm.
Image dimension width:
45.2 cm. [both pages]
Page dimension height:
23.2 cm.
Page dimension width:
45.2 cm. [both pages]
Materials medium:
ink, colors
Materials support:
amatl paper
Languages:
Nahuatl
Description:
Two deer climb a mountain covered by trees and thorn bushes. Two men, one Mexican and one European [?], wearing knee-length dress, tunic, and sandals, talk to one another.
Source place of publication:
[Mexico City, Mexico?]
Source date:
[between 1700 and 1748]
notes:
Translation of text, "The territory which is found in the place called Huitztla (place of thorn scrub) consists of 800 mecates." This codex, known as the Codex Santa María Tetelpan, was long believed to be a 16th century manuscript. This work is now thought to have been prepared in the early 18th century by the residents of Mazetepec/Tetelpan, in defense against challenges to the village boundaries. The indigenous techniques employed for such narrative paintings as these were still being used 200 years after the conquest. Combining traditional water color paintings with text in the Nahuatl language, the preparers sought to imitate original landholding documents of the 16th century. It is also known as the Coyoacán Codex.
Time Period:
1701-1750
References:
Robertson, D. "Techialoyan manuscripts," Handbook of Middle American Indians, vol. XIV, 253-280
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1941.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
Commentary:
geographic area:
Spanish America
Subject Area:
Flora and fauna
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Indians of Mexico
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