Chinampa illustration

[Michel Oudijk]

Depends a bit on what you mean. If you mean a chinampas from a bird's eye view than there are several. The most famous one being the 'Plano Parcial de la Ciudad de México'. But there are numerous lesser known documents in the AGN: Tierras. Vol. 45, Exp. 3, f. 8v; Tierras, Vol. 39, 1a parte, Exp. 2, f. 13r; Tierras, Vol. 2789, Exp. 1, f. 6r; or Tierras, Vol. 22, 1a parte, Exp. 5, f. 122v to name but a few. The Bibliothèque Nationale de France holds a beautiful example: BnF 82. Or maybe the Xochimilco pages of the Codex Cozcatzin.
However, if you want more of a Sahagúnesque Renaissance example it becomes more difficult. From the top of my head I don't know any example but I don't have all the images of the Florentino in my head. You may want to leaf it through. A 'purely' prehispanic glyph for 'chinampa' is even more difficult. You would need a toponym with 'chinam' in it which is quite unusual in Nahua place names. The only one I can think of is Chinameca which is near Coatzacoalco and therefore not very useful. I suppose the field of 'Xochimilco' (f. 2v of the Mendoza, for example) would be a chinampa but it simply is represented as a 'milli' as it's a phonetic element.
 
Hope this helps a bit.
 
Michel
 
> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:20:48 -0500> From: schwallr at potsdam.edu> To: aztlan at lists.famsi.org; nahuatl at lists.famsi.org> Subject: [Nahuat-l] Chinampa illustration> > I am looking for an illustration of a chinampa taken from either a > pre-Columbian source, or some graphic source from the 16th century > (relaciones geograficas, some codex, etc.). I've looked in the Codex > Mendoza, the Primeros memoriales, and the Codex Osuna, with no luck. I > thought that some of you might know and save me some time> > > -- > *****************************> John F. Schwaller> President> SUNY - Potsdam> 44 Pierrepont Ave.> Potsdam, NY 13676> Tel. 315-267-2100> FAX 315-267-2496> > _______________________________________________> Nahuatl mailing list> Nahuatl at lists.famsi.org> http://www.famsi.org/mailman/listinfo/nahuatl
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