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reals marked on fragment VII (plate xii). In the lowest row there 

 are 5, in the second 3, in the third 5, and in the fourth again 3 ; in all, 

 16 reals or 2 pesos. 



I shall show later that another page of our collection, fragment 

 VIII (plate XIII ) can be proved to have come from the same village. 

 This latter fragment, as I shall show later on, is most closely related 

 to one of the manuscripts which passed from the collection of the 

 Hon Joel R. Poinsett, former minister to Mexico from the United 

 States, into the possession of the American Philosophical Society in 

 Philadelphia, and w^as published in the Transactions of that society 

 (new series, volume 12, 1892, article 4). It is interesting to note that 

 our fragment VII (plate xii) sliould also find its exact parallel in a 

 piece in that collection. The latter is designated by the editors as 

 Tribute Roll (Calendar 2). Here, too, the page is divided by hori- 

 zontal lines into a series of consecutive divisions. On the right is a 

 day, invariably designated by a disk, Sunday by a red disk with a 

 three-armed verticillate design (/, figure 44). Then follow various 

 articles of food, with their prices; but the bill of fare is somewhat 

 enlarged. Besides turkey, painted red (A;, same figure), fish (I), a 

 little basket of tortillas (n). and bundles of zacate (s), we have in p 

 still another cheap article of food, of which eighty are marked at 

 1 real, but to which I can not at present give a name; in q we 

 apparently haveliaskets of tamales (a kind of dumpling with a filling, 

 which was steamed in a wa'apper of corn husks), eight of which were 

 sold for 3 reals; in 7n, some articles of food painted red, possibly 

 chile con carne, four of which cost 1 real ; in r, a fanega of Indian 

 corn for 3 reals (see p and q, figure 40) ; and in o. an article of diet 

 with wdiicli I am unacquainted, which was sold for 2 reals. Finally, 

 in two squares there are figures of Spaniards {t, figure 44). It seems 

 highly probable that this page belongs to the same date and same 

 region as our fragment VII (plate xii). It is very probable that our 

 fragment VII (plate xii) likewise once belonged to the Boturini 

 collection. The catalogue of Boturini 's Museo Indiano mentions 

 under number 1, section 21 : Tres mapas en papel Indiano como faxas. 

 Tratan de los tributos que pagaba el pueblo de Mizquiahuallan, y en 

 el se ven las cifras numericas de cada cosa que entregalian los vecinos 

 (" Three maps on Indian paj^er like strips of ribbon. They treat of 

 the tribute paid by the village of Mizquiahuallan, and in them are the 

 numerical figures of everything which householders furnished "). 



FRAGMENT VIII 



This is a strip of agave paper, 33 cm. long, 22 cm. wide, much 

 injured at the edges ancl in the middle by folding, and imperfect at the 

 upper left corner (plate xiii). On the upper side of the fragment 



