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 N o t e s o n M i d d l e A m e r i c a n A r c h a e o l o g y a n d E t h n o l o g y Carnegie Institution of Washington Division of Historical Research No. 23 October 30, 1943 the Periods of tribute Collection in Moctezuma’s empire R. H. Barlow should occur, is a glyph of a vessel filled with liquid. Now Etzalqualiztli was one of the principal feasts of Tlaloc, and is represented in the Humboldt Codex I by the mask of the rain god. Clearly, the artist of the Mauricio de la Arena has merely chosen another attribute of the same deity, one of the vessels in which rain is stored in his heaven of Tlalocano Thus the same four tribute dates shown in the Humboldt Codex I for a town in southeastern Guerrero are confirmed by the Mauricio de la Arena from a town of southern Morelos. (We may surmise that the four rosette day-symbols of the Tlatelolco page, Codex Mendoza, f. 19r, refer to these same feasts.) Intheuniquecasewhereallpaymentsweretwice yearly, two of these same festivals, Tlacaxipeualiztli and Ochpaniztli, are retained. Cooper Clark points out that this is the only place (f. 47r) where month symbols are painted in the Codex Mendoza. This slower rhythm is caused by the distance of the indicated province (Soconusco), which was the most southerly tributary of the empire. Theyearly,halfyearly,and“quarterly”payments are not the whole picture. To them we must add the payment, six times a year, which was received by Texcoco from the province of Quauhnahuac. This is somewhat at variance with the version of the Matricula de Tributos and the Codex Mendoza, but our source is certainly trustworthy. In Lehmann’s Die Geschichte der königreiche von Colhuacan und Mexico (1938), verse 131. (the most reliable edition of the document) in addition to the four festivals already discussed, those of “Tecuilhuitl” (Tecuilhuitontli or R.C.E. Long (The Payment of tribute in the Codex Mendoza. No. 10 of this series) has recently pointed out that the tributary provinces of Moctezuma’s empire made their payments yearly, half yearly, and “quarterly,” that is, what is termed every eighty days on the four festivals of Tlacaxipeualiztli, Etzalqualiztli , Ochpaniztli, and Panquetzaliztli. The present paper is intended as an extension of his remarks. As evidence for his quarterly tribute dates he cites the Humboldt Codex I, part of a manuscript originating, as Lic. Salvador Toscano (1943) has shown, in southeastern Guerrero. It may be added that these same four festivals of the Humboldt Codex I appear in a tribute codex from the modern state of Morelos, where the “quarterly” payment (to new masters) was maintained well into the sixteenth century , as we read in the Suma de Visitas no. 163. This supplementary codex is the Mauricio de la Arena from Tlaquiltenango, Morelos (a part is published in Paso y Troncoso 1897:273–78). Dating from about the time of the Spanish conquest, the codex conserves the old calendar system despite the Christianized names of some of the tributaries listed. Two of the fiesta-symbols, those of the festivals of Ochpaniztli and Panquetzaliztli, which indicate tribute periods in the Humboldt Codex I take the same form as in that codex. Tlacaxipeualiztli is represented (as in Codex Mendoza, f. 47r) by Xipe’s conical cap (yopitzontli ) instead of by his whole head. The fourth festival , that of Etzalqualiztli, seems at first inspection to be absent. Between the symbols of Tlacaxipeualiztli and Ochpaniztli, however, just where Etzalqualiztli The Periods of Tribute Collection in Moctezuma’s Empire  Uei Tecuilhuitl, the text is defective) and Quecholli figure as tribute dates. Unfortunately, the list is in writing, and there are no glyphs for theme. We see, then, that certain festivals seem to have served as a framework for tribute in widely scat23 .1. Hieroglyphs for months of payment of tribute: (a–c) Tlacaxipeualizli, Humboldt Codex I, Mauricio de la Arena, Fragment I, Libro de Tributos; (d–e) Etzalqualiztli, Fragment I, Libro de Tributos; (f–h) Ochpaniztli, Fragment I, Libro de Tributos; (i, j) Panquetzaliztli, Fragment V, Libro de Tributos tered parts of Moctezuma’s empire, being increased or decreased as distance demanded. It is not difficult to see why nearby Quauhnahuac paid tribute three times as often as Soconusco, on the remote and steamy frontier of the southlands. ...

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