Tribute.BA-66University of Richmond Book Arts Studioarchives@richmond.eduThis finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2023-08-07 13:53:39 -0400.Description is written in: English, Latin script.University of Richmond Book Arts StudioTribute.Sico, Jillian M.Frogsong PressBA-66/repositories/6/resources/1252 Items1 volume in clamshell box : includes illustrations20 cm2018Rare Book Room copy is 4 of 14. Rare Book Room copy includes author's autograph: JM Sico. Imprint from colophon."Tribute was designed, printed, and bound by Jillian M. Sico at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa in fall 2018. The cover is bark paper made with Alabama kozo, using amate-making methods the author learned at Taller Santos Rojas in San Pablito, Mexico. San Pablito is the only place where traditional amate, a bark paper pounded with volcanic stone, is still made today. The interior sheets are Alabama kozo and Zerkall book. The text is inspired by the Codex Mendoza, a 1541 book with prehispanic-style Nahutl pictograms with a Spanish gloss. It lists Aztec conquests and tributes demanded from surrounding areas. The back of Tribute shows towns still existing in Mexico today where amate was once made. Prehispanic screenfold books, most of which were burned by the Spanish, were often painted on amate. Some contained mnemonics for recitation of poetry"--Colophon.English
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Note
In Memory of Christine McGeorge McClintic, Treasurer of the RFI/WCR Alumnae 1930-1977.
Dedication
"In tribute to the amate-makers, city-builders, poets, and painters of Mexico past and present; jamädi, tlazahcāmati, gracias"--Title page.