• The Boxer Codex is a late-16th-century Spanish manuscript produced in the Philippines. It contains 75 colored illustrations of the peoples of China, the...
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    1590 Boxer Codex Visayan timawa, c.1590 Boxer Codex Visayan pintados (tattooed), c. 1590 Boxer Codex Visayan uripon (slaves), c. 1590 Boxer Codex Binukot...
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    needed] The earliest appearance of the term is manlica mentioned in the Boxer Codex with the meaning of "freeman". The only other contemporary account of...
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    hereditary class of oripun unique to the Visayans and first mentioned in the Boxer Codex. Instead of serving obligations through labor, the horo-han instead served...
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  • Boxer most commonly refers to: Boxer (boxing), a competitor in the sport of boxing Boxer (dog), a breed of dog Boxer or boxers may also refer to: Boxer...
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    or silver or slaves is accepted by the family of the deceased. In the Boxer Codex, they were said to immediately cut off the head of people they kill with...
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    first tattoos were acquired during the initiation into adulthood (the Boxer Codex records this as around twenty years old). They are initially made on...
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    primo viaggio intorno al mondo (1550-1559), The anonymously-written Boxer Codex (c. 1590s) also has a similar description: Two holes are fashioned in...
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    1595–1602), Badhala (Plasencia 1589), Batala (Loarca 1582), or Bachtala (Boxer Codex 1590) was derived from the Sanskrit word bhattara or bhattaraka (noble...
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    negotiations, and mourning rites in case of the death of the datu. As such, the Boxer Codex likened them to "knights and hidalgos". Though timawa were powerful and...
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