tetzacuilli (T2726:8:153r)

The so-called Mapa de Patlachiuhqui y Moyotepec, Tetzcoco upon which iconographic image of the corral dates from c. 1592. It was submitted by Indigenous litigants from Tetzcoco, among them Juan de Pomar, who were objecting to an effort by the Spaniard Pedro Mexia de Bocanegra to secure a viceregal grant of a “sitio de estancia y tres caballerías de tierra” (ranch and three caballerías of land) located within the territory of the Nahua city. The grant was not issued thanks to the efforts of the Indigenous litigants. Teresa Rojas Rabiela, who has studied the mapa, emphasizes that many pictorial elements in it indicate both the persistence of traditional ways and the influence of the Spanish, the latter of which would include a stone corral designed for the enclosure of introduced European livestock. For more information, see Teresa Rojas Rabiela, “El paisaje del agua y la tierra de la Acolhuatllalli a través del mapa de Patlachiuhqui y Moyotepec, Texcoco, 1592/Water and Soil in the Landscape of Acolhuatlalli, based on the Map of Patlachiuhqui and Moyotepec, Texcoco, 1592,” Relaciones: Estudios de Historia y Sociedad, 40:160 (Invierno 2019), 7-34, https://www.revistarelaciones.com/index.php/relaciones/article/view/665/....