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Codex Azcatitlan. Afb. IV.6 in: ZANTWIJK, van, Rudolf (1977). Handel en wandel van de Azteken. De sociale geschiedenis van voor-Spaans Mexico. Van Gorcum, Assen/Amstedam. ISBN 90 232 1509 5
These books were created in a series to represent the decay of a stag and the process in which the physical body goes through after death. Each book represents fresh, active and dry stages of decay. This progression is represented by the quality of art, quality of the book pages as well as the cover, or lack of one.