[7] This account will also be reprinted in facsimile, with a
translation into English, in the author’s account of the voyage of
Grijalva. The title is, Provinciæ Sive Regiones in India Occidentali
Noviter Repertæ in Vltima Navigatione. The known copies are in the John
Carter Brown Library, Providence, and the New York Public Library.
[8] I quote here from the translation made and edited by Francis A.
MacNutt, De Orbe Novo, vol. II, pp. 19-20, New York, 1912.
[9] The chapters relating to the voyage of Grijalva have been
translated into English by the writer and will appear in the proposed
work mentioned in Note 3.
[10] Francisco López de Gomara, edition of Don Enrique de Vedia,
Historiadores Primitivos de Indias, in _Biblioteca de Autores
Españoles_, tomo I, Madrid, 1877.
[11] Eduard Seler, Ein Kapitel aus dem Geschichtswerk des P. Sahagun,
p. 124, Berlin, 1890.
[12] Lehmann, in his Methods and Results in Mexican Research, Paris,
1909, writes: “Hardly less remarkable are the mosaics made of more or
less precious stones, shells, etc. No less than twenty-three pieces are
known in various museums, the finest being in London, Rome, and Berlin.
The stones when cut to shape are embedded in a peculiar substance
(_tzinacanquauhcuitlatl_) covering the whole surface of the object
to be decorated; the latter were chiefly of wood, rarely of bone or
stone. Two masks are skilfully prepared human skulls. The usual shapes
are shields, helmets, knife handles and trinkets. The small cup-shaped
heads and the double-jaguar in the Berlin Museum are of doubtful
meaning. Most of these objects apparently come from the Eastern
provinces, i. e., Tabasco. We know from other sources that it was only
under king Ahuizotl, with the conquest of the Tzapotec district, that
the Mexicans became acquainted with turkois-mosaics, shields, earrings,
etc.” This is a translation of his Ergebnisse und Aufgaben der
mexikanistischen Forschung, published in _Archiv für Anthropologie_,
Neue Folge, band VI, heft 2 u 3, Braunschweig, 1907.
[13] See Lehmann in our List of Works Describing Mexican Mosaics, under
1906.
[14] Juan de Torquemada, Monarchia Indiana, Barcia edition, Madrid,
1732, lib. II, cap. LXXIX, p. 215.
[15] See Antonio Peñafiel, Nomenclatura Geográfica y Etimológica de
México, Mexico, 1897.
[16] Clavigero, The History of Mexico, Cullen transl., vol. II, p. 232,
London, 1787.
[17] Saville, The Goldsmith’s Art in Ancient Mexico, op. cit.
[18] Peter Martyr, op. cit., vol. II, p. 46.
[19] Las Casas, Historia de las Indias, tomo IV, cap. CXXI, pp.
284-286, Madrid ed., 1876.
[20] Fr. Bernardino de Sahagun, Historia General de las Cosas de Nueva
España, Bustamante ed., lib. 12, caps, II-VI, pp. 5-12, Mexico, 1829.
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