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Lienzo de Metlatoyuca

BM Am2006,Ptg.30088 1

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.

Date
1865
Place
Mexico
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Sheets
5
Original size
2,500 × 1,903 pixels

Public domainsafest

Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.

Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-100-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page; permission field: © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

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All 5 sheets

Each sheet links to its file at the archive; the image link is the full-size scan.

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