In a rather complex argument brought forth in 1993,
Ross Parmenter tried to identify one of the place signs
in the center of the Lienzo de Ihuitlan, called “Water”
by Alfonso Caso (1961) as the place sign for the village
of Tulancingo. This identification was mainly based on
the fact that several of the royal couples associated with
the place “Water” in the Lienzo de Ihuitlan
also appear scattered around the dominant central church
on the Lienzo de Tulancingo, which was photographed for
the first time in 1974 by Jesús Franco Carrasco
in the village of San Miguel Tulancingo. The same argument
was presented by Carlos Rincón Mautner (1994). There
is strong evidence, however, indicating that the place
sign “Water” represents the village of Ihuitlan
itself and that the Lienzo de Tulancingo originally came
from the village of Ihuitlan.