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Aztec Journey from Aztlà ¡n, Codex Boturini, 16th Century
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Title: Aztec Journey from Aztlà ¡n, Codex Boturini, 16th Century
Caption: Aztlán is the legendary ancestral home of the Nahua peoples. The mythical homeland of the Aztecs. Aztec is the Nahuatl word for "people from Aztlan". The role of Aztlán is slightly less important to Aztec legendary histories than the migration to Tenochtitlán itself. The Boturini Codex was painted by an unknown Aztec author some time between 1530 and 1541, roughly a decade after the Spanish conquest of Mexico. Pictorial in nature, it tells the story of the legendary Aztec journey from Aztlán to the Valley of Mexico. Rather than employing separate pages, the author used one long sheet of amatl, or fig bark, accordion-folded into 21? pages. The drawings are not colored, but rather merely outlined with black ink.
Personalities: AZTEC
Category: ILLUSTRATION • History: Ancient
Credit: Album / Science Source / New York Public Library
Releases: ? Model Release: No - ? Property Release: No
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Image size: 4134 × 2817 px | 33.3 MB
Print size: 35.0 × 23.9 cm | 1627.6 × 1109.1 in (300 dpi)
Keywords: 16 16TH XVI XVITH SIXTEENTH CENTURY • 16 CENTURY • 16TH CENTURY • 16TH • ANCESTRAL HOME • ANCIENT CIVILIZATION • ANCIENT CULTURE • ART • ARTFORM: ICON • ARTWORK • AZTEC CIVILIZATION • AZTEC CODEX • AZTEC CODICES • AZTEC EMPIRE • AZTEC • AZTLAN • AZTLÃ ¡N • CELEBRITIES • CELEBRITY • CENTRAL AMERICA • CODEX BOTURINI • CODEX • CODICES • DRAWING • ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH • FAMOUS PEOPLE • FAMOUS • HISTORIC • HISTORICAL • HISTORY • HISTORY: ANCIENT • ICON • ICONOGRAPHY • ILLUSTRATION • ILLUSTRATIONS • ILUSTRATION • IMPORTANT • JOURNEY FROM • JOURNEY TO • LEGEND • LEGENDARY • MESOAMERICA • MESOAMERICAN • MIGRATION SCROLL • MIGRATION TO TENOCHTITLAN • MIGRATION TO TENOCHTITLÃ ¡N • MYTH • MYTHOLOGICAL • MYTHOLOGY • NAHUAS • NAHUATL • NOTABLE • PEOPLE FROM AZTLAN • PICTORIAL CODEX • PICTORIAL CODICES • PRIMITIVE ART • TENOCHTITLAN • TENOCHTITLÃ ¡N • VALLEY OF MEXICO • WELL-KNOWN • XVI CENTURY
