Plate 3, tributes

This plate illustrates some of the tribute items the indigenous people of Huexotzinco had to provide to the Spanish colonial authorities. Tributes were taxes paid in kind (and in labor). The petitioners requested a reduction in what they had to provide (based on the fact that they had allied with Cortés to defeat the Aztecs), and they were rewarded for their role in the conquest--and for their judicial activism--with a 66% reduction in what they had to pay. [SW]