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A screenfold read like a path.
Also known as: Mixtec codex convention, Nuu Dzaui pictorial writing
The Mixtec system recording genealogy and history in pictorial screenfold manuscripts.
Records genealogy, conquest and ritual in painted figures with name, place and date signs.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Red guide lines set the reading path, which turns back and forth across the panel rather than running straight — the manuscript tells the reader where to go next.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Records people by a calendar name and a personal name rather than by a phonetic spelling, so the system identifies without writing the language.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Painted figures, place signs and date signs on a folded deerskin or bark screen, arranged along guide lines that turn back and forth across the page.