{"id":12470,"date":"2020-12-04T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T09:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/?p=12470"},"modified":"2021-02-15T18:29:10","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T17:29:10","slug":"the-codex-tulane-a-journey-back-in-time-to-16th-century-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/the-codex-tulane-a-journey-back-in-time-to-16th-century-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"The Codex Tulane: A Journey Back in Time to 16th-century Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Codex Tulane<\/strong> is a sixteenth-century manuscript from Puebla, Mexico presenting the history of two Mixtec city-states<\/strong> using the Mesoamerican pictographic technique<\/strong>. The contents include depictions of two ruling genealogies<\/strong> from the regions of Acatlan and Chila.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are placed vertically along the length of the codex to establish the rightful lineage of these communities<\/strong> when land disputes appeared during the colonial era. It portrays 112 human figures, sixty-six male and forty-six female.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A 373.5 cm Long Genealogy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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When unrolled, the scroll measures 373.5 cm in length by 22 cm wide. Thin deerskin leather covered in a light stucco surface forms the support for this work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Written for indigenous and colonial audiences, the codex uses pictographs<\/strong>, glyphs<\/strong>, and local<\/strong> iconography<\/strong> to communicate dates and places of events, and denote deities affiliated with the aforementioned southwest Puebla municipalities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Tale of Two City-States<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Created to establish the historical familial lines of the city-states of Chila and Acatlan (Toavui and Yucu Yusi<\/strong>, respectfully, in colonial Mixtec) in southern Puebla and northern Oaxaca<\/strong>, referred to as Mixteca Baja<\/strong>, the Codex Tulane was a tool used by indigenous peoples and the post-conquest government as documentation of legitimate territorial rights<\/strong> to the colonial authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each of the genealogies is accompanied by toponyms of geographical features <\/strong>linking the lineages to the landscape: a jewel-topped mountain for Acatlan and a river indicating Chila.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read from bottom to top, the content of the scroll begins as many Mesoamerican histories begin, with the telling of the origin myths and ceremonies<\/strong>, deities, and symbolic dates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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