Turquois mosaic art in ancient Mexico

Name: Turquois mosaic art in ancient Mexico
Author: Saville, Marshall H. (Marshall Howard)

Saville, Marshall H. (Marshall Howard)

Mexico -- Antiquities; Mexico -- History -- Conquest, 1519-1540; Mosaics; Turquoise

1. Bowl filled with turquois. After Tribute Roll of Montezuma     24

   2. Ten masks of turquois. After Tribute Roll of Montezuma         24

   3. Small bag filled with turquois. After Tribute Roll of
      Montezuma                                                      25

   4. Shields with turquois mosaic decoration. After Tribute
      Roll of Montezuma                                              25

   5. Serpent scepter with turquois mosaic decoration. After
      Sahagun, manuscript of the Real Palacio, Madrid                43

   6. _a_, Gold crown with turquois mosaic decoration. After
      Sahagun, manuscript of the Real Palacio, Madrid

      _b_, Gold crown. After Tribute Roll of Montezuma               45

   7. Pottery disc with hematite mosaic decoration, from
      Cuilapa, Oaxaca. American Museum of Natural History,
      New York                                                       51

   8. Gold shield breast ornament with turquois mosaic decoration,
      from Yanhuitlan, Oaxaca. National Museum,
      Mexico                                                         52

   9. Wooden object (fragment) with turquois mosaic decoration,
      from Sacred cenote, ruins of Chichen Itza, Yucatan.
      Peabody Museum, Cambridge                                      57

  10. Wooden object (fragment) with turquois mosaic decoration,
      from Sacred cenote, ruins of Chichen Itza,
      Yucatan. Peabody Museum, Cambridge                             57

  11. Rattle of the god Xipe Totec. After Sahagun, manuscript
      of the Real Palacio, Madrid                                    58

  12. _a_, _b_, _c_, Crowns with mosaic decoration, from sculptured
      wall, Temple of the Jaguars, ruins of Chichen
      Itza, Yucatan. After Maudslay                                  58

  13. Mask with mosaic decoration, from sculptured wall,
      Temple of the Jaguars, ruins of Chichen Itza, Yucatan.
      After Maudslay                                                 59

  14. Mask with mosaic decoration, from sculptured wall,
      Temple of the Jaguars, ruins of Chichen Itza, Yucatan.
      After Maudslay                                                 59

  15. Mask of wood with turquois mosaic decoration. Prehistoric
      and Ethnographic Museum, Rome. After
      Pigorini                                                       63

  16. God Paynal with shield decorated with turquois mosaic.
      After Sahagun, manuscript of the Real Palacio, Madrid          70

  17. God Paynal with shield decorated with turquois mosaic.
      After Sahagun, Florentine manuscript                           70

  18. Glyphs of the town of Culhuacan. After Codex Telleriano
      Remensis                                                       74

  19. Knife handle of wood with turquois mosaic decoration.
      Prehistoric and Ethnographic Museum, Rome. After
      Pigorini                                                       83

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Turquois mosaic art in ancient Mexico

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