codices
Americannoun
noun
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A symbol of status, carmine red was already employed by the nobility of Mexico’s Indigenous peoples to dye garments, and widely used in the arts, to write codices, decorate ceramics and paint murals.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 1, 2023
They also used codices, book-like records drawn on bark paper that combined both images and pictograms.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
Authors penned chivalric romances and heroic tales of knights battling fantastic monsters and traveling to exotic lands—think, Beowulf and King Arthur—by hand onto parchment and eventually paper codices.
From Science Magazine • Feb. 16, 2022
Driggers cited Mexican-born American artist Enrique Chagoya, who evokes Maya codices — folding books of colorful glyphs — in his satirical “Illegal Alien’s Guide to the Theory of Everything.”
From Washington Post • Aug. 4, 2021
Tlacaelel insisted that in addition to destroying the codices of their former oppressors the Mexica should set fire to their own codices.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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