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Census of Tepoztlán

Location: Latin American Library Rare
Call Number: F1219.C42

Morelos, Mexico. Codex, European paper, 6 leaves, 31.5 x 21.5 cm., Native black ink & color, mid-16th century.

Population data on Tlalnepantla, a barrio of Tepoztlan, and ten neighboring towns. A pictorial census of houses, baptized men, widowers, widows with tears in their eyes, marriagable boys and girls, and younger children counted in the Aztec pictorial system.

Spanish summary on last page.

Folios 816-821 of a larger lost document. (HMAI 323)

 

Abbreviations

HMAI = Handbook of Middle American Indians Census. Text adapted from M.B. Robertson, Mexican Indian Manuscript Painting, 1991.

 

   
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