full view

This image shows the full view of a single face of a folio that is adorned with paintings of two indigenous noblemen. One, at the bottom, is standing, and one, at the top, is seated on what would appear to be a stool but with a woven back (icpalli), and he appears to sit inside a tecpancalli (royal palace), although it is just barely there. The objects along the left third of the page are not identified. The names of the men reveal that these are men who lived within Spanish colonization, for they have been baptized, taken Spanish given names (and the lower one, a Spanish surname), and they bear the title of nobility “don.” Yet, they are dressed partly in a pre-Hispanic style, carrying pre-Hispanic weapons and other objects, and they wear feathered headdresses. [SW]