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Complete Record for Item NS8 L7.9.1

Core Fields

Title:[Aztec agricultural map]
Item Type:Maps
Date:1520
Call Number NS8 L7.9.1

Creator Information (Person)

creator: Norton, Henry C.

Creator Information (Organization)

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Notes

Local_note: verso note: "Gift of Mrs. Celia B. Norton of Montclair, NJ, niece of Henry C. Norton to whom it was presented by a Mexican General. Entered in Donation Book Feb 17 1893."
Extent: 1 manuscript map
Added_date: 1650
Dimensions: 68 x 42 cm.
Medium: black and color ink, with black and color wash, on crude plant fiber (a type of amate paper), backed with paper backed with cloth
Local_note: Map 10901-A: donation letter
Added_person: Norton, Celia B.
General_note: Research on this map is in progress. It depicts what seems to be an agricultural area, featuring plants with their Nahuatl names underwritten in Roman script. Numbers are given in Nahuatl, and what seems to be administrators are shown with names in Nahuatl hieroglyph.

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Mexico

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