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English: Folio 61r from the w:en:Codex Mendoza. Fifteen-year-old boys and girls face their future. (1) (upper half of page) For boys, there are two alternative routes of further education, depicted in the top half of this page and in the next four leaves (fols. 62r-5r). The father, seated here on the left, can present his son to the head priest for higher training at the temple school (calmecac) for noble boys. Alternatively (below), he can entrust his son to the master of youths at ‘the young men’s house’ (telpochcalli), where an essentially military training was provided for commoners, though there would also be training in ritual singing and dancing at the ‘house of song’ (cuicali). (2) (lower half of page) The fifteen-year-old girl undergoes her wedding ceremonies. At the bottom, a torch-lit procession accompanies the bride to the groom’s house on the first night; she is carried on the back of the female matchmaker. Inside, a feast is laid out: a basket of tamales, a tripod bowl of turkey-meat, and a pitcher and bowl of pulque (fermented juice of the maguey plant). Four aged wedding guests are shown talking. The bride and her older groom, their garments tied together, sit in front of a hearth and a bowl of incense, on the mat on which they will eventually sleep. Shelfmark: MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1