An account of a series of native Mexican paintings, illustrating the Spanish conquest, preserved in the archives of the pueblo of San Juan de Cuauhtlantzinco, state of Puebla, and supposed to date from the 16th century. "Most of the paintings appear to have been made by Tepoxtecatl or Tepostecatzin."--p. 11. Includes half-tone reproductions from photographs of the original paintings, together with the Spanish inscriptions (translated from the original Nahuatl text in 1855, by José Vicente Campos) and an English translation from the Spanish.