Tribute by Jillian Sico - SOLDTribute is a letterpress printed artist book that explores the history of amate papermaking in Mexico. The text is inspired by the 1542 Aztec Codex Mendoza, which lists tributes demanded by Aztec rulers from surrounding communities, including a pounded bark paper called amate. Because the Spanish destroyed paper and books throughout Mexico after their arrival, few examples remain of prehispanic screenfold books, or codices, painted on amate; the rest