SELER] MEXICAN PICTURE WRITINGS FRAGMENT VIII 201 



thore are drawings, done with a fine pen, most of which are touched 

 np with coh)i-s. On the left side are heads of men. Behind each is a 

 hieroglyph, which gives the name of the man in question, and in front 

 of each is the wooden implement used for field work, known as uictli, 

 or couaiuicatl (see t and y/, figure 37). These persons are thus marlced 

 as husbandmen. Before each person is a row of fields with quad- 

 rangular boundaries, on the sides of which are numbers similar to 

 those which we encountered on fragment VI (plate xi). The num- 

 bers on the opposite sides of the fields, as far as can be determined, 

 are alike, except in some minute particulars. This shows that these 

 were meant for pieces of arable land with quadrangidar boundaries. 

 There are hieroglyphs on the upper boundary and on the surface of 

 the fields which are repeated in the different rows. In some of the 

 fields, in the lower right-hand corner, there is also a representa- 

 tion of grass (zacatl), painted yellow (see «, figure 36), and on the 

 last field of the first row, in the upper right-hand corner, is the picture 

 of a house (calli), and also in the first and second field in the third 

 row. Finally, the name of the respective jDerson is written with a 

 coarse pen beside each head. From the character of the drawing and 

 the structure of the hieroglyphs this fragment (plate xiii) resembles 

 most closely the so-called Vergara codex. That is a manuscript 

 mentioned by Boturini in his Museo Indiano, now in the Aubin- 

 Goupil collection, consisting (originally) of 56 pages, which gives 

 the statistics of the villages of Calcantlaxiuhcan, Topotitlan, Patla- 

 chiuhcan, Teocaltitlan, and Texcalticpac. The heads of families and 

 their descendants are set down first, then lists of the persons in each 

 village (tlacatlacuilolli) ,the huids claimed by individuals (milcocolli) , 

 and of what was allotted to individuals at the time of the adjustment 

 (tlauelmantli). On the first (originally the second) page the remark 

 " 1539, marques del valle virey " has been added evidently later, by 

 another hand. But this note has probably as little value as those 

 added on pages 21 and 22, where a certain Don Augustin de Rosas 

 asserts his claim to the estates of Tzilaquauhtepoztlanallan. At the 

 end stands the name Pedro Vasquez de Vergara, possibly the name of 

 some one who had the manuscript in his possession. The manuscrii)t 

 has usually been cited under his name since Aubin's time. 



On those pages of that manuscript which treat of the distribution 

 of lands the heads of jDcrsons, with their names and hieroglyphs, are 

 depicted in exactly the same way as on our fragment VIII (plate 

 XIII ) , and beside them, in rows, are the fields, those claimed by them 

 or those which were assigned to them (Goupil-Boban atlas. ])late 39. 

 See a, &,and c, figure 45, which are taken therefrom). In the Vergara 

 codex the numbers which give the dimensions are placed on only one 

 of the long, vertical, and on one of the short, horizontal, sides of the 

 fields, and there are hieroglA'phs only in the middle of the fields, but 



