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Paper: A Sacred Material in Aztec Ritual

Of the many items of tribute required by the ruler of Tenochtitlan, Codex Mendoza notes that 480,000 sheets, or 24,000 resmas, of paper were to be provided annually.' In the case of Itzamatitlan, payment of 8,000 resmas was required to be made twice yearly rather than annually, the usual requirement.2 One is led to the inescapable conclusion that paper was used in extremely large quantities. The uses of this paper were quite varied. Some was folded like a miniature screen to form the sacred books, called tonalamatl, reference books for priestly guidance which recorded the significance of the permutations of the calendar, the day names, numbers, and weeks. Other sheets of paper were used for administrative and official purposes: to record conquests, to maintain tribute registers, to describe legal controversies. But these uses would have required only a small percentage of the total annual consumption of 480,000 sheets.3 The Aztecs' primary use of paper appears to have been for ritual purposes. It was sold at the market place of the city in rolls and