Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS V
3. ILLUSTRATIONS VII
4. PREFACE 1
5. I. INTRODUCTION
6. SETTING 4
7. HISTORY OF THE TLAPA REGION 5
8. THE COMMUNITY OF PETLACALA 7
9. THE ARTIST/COPYIST 9
10. MATERIAL DESCRIPTION OF THE 1953 DOCUMENT 10
11. THE EARLIER DOCUMENT 11
12. II. THE OUTER BORDER: THE MIGRATION
13. NATIVE WRITING AND THE OUTER BORDER 15
14. TEMPORAL PLACEMENT 18
15. THE MIGRATION TEXT 22
16. Paleography 22
17. NAHUATL TEXT 22
18. TRANSLATION 27
19. III. THE INNER BORDER: BOUNDARIES OF PETLACALA
20. NAHUATL TEXT 37
21. TRANSLATION 42
22. IV. THE CENTRAL PANEL
23. CARLUS QUINTOS 50
24. THE THREE INDIAN NOBLES 50
25. THE KNEELING WOMAN 53
26. THE TRIBUTE 54
27. THE GLYPHS 56
28. V. FUNCTIONS OF THE LIENZO
29. LAND DOCUMENTATION 59
30. HISTORICAL DOCUMENTATION 60
31. CEREMONIAL USE 61
32. VI. CONCLUSION 65
33. BIBLIOGRAPHY 68
34. INDEX 70