Mexican Tribute Account
This page from the Codex Mendoza records the tribute paid to the Mexican capital by the Xoconochco province, a tropical region near present-day Chiapas. In this case, the tribute includes, among many other things, two large strings of green stones, fourteen hundred bundles of rich feathers, and eighty complete bird skins. The tribute exacted by the Mexicans from other peoples was a significant part of their wealth and created the resentment that tributary peoples felt toward their overlords. Bodleian Library, Oxford, U.K., MS Arch.Self.A1.Fol.47r.