NMAI copy 39088018638957 from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema. 1. Introduction -- 2. The Mixtec historical manuscripts -- 3. The pictorial conventions of the Mixtec histories -- 4. The ...
Introduction : writing and recording knowledge / Elizabeth Hill Boone -- Literacy among the Pre-Columbian Maya : a comparative perspective / Stephen Houston -- Aztec pictorial histories : records ...
Once, the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan had a library full of thousands of written works. But when Spanish conquistadors arrived, they destroyed almost all of these codices—long scrolls folded into books ...