[95] Read, in his study, gives only a drawing of this shield. Our
illustration, a direct photograph, does not show the designs so clearly
as the drawing.
[96] Our illustration is a copy of the photograph published by Heger.
See List of Works following.
[97] Seler, Codex Fejérváry, An Old Mexican Picture Manuscript in
the Liverpool Free Public Museum, published at the Expense of His
Excellency the Duke of Loubat, p. 210, Berlin and London, 1901-1902.
[98] The Codex Nuttall or Zouche was published by the Peabody Museum,
Cambridge, in 1892. The original is now in the British Museum.
[99] On this subject consult the elucidations of Mexican codices by
Seler, published at the expense of the Duke of Loubat. Also, Mexican
and Central American Antiquities, Calendar Systems, and History,
being translations from the German of papers by Seler, Förstemann,
and others, published as _Bulletin 28, Bureau of American Ethnology_,
Washington, 1904. The studies of C. P. Bowditch will be found in his
Numeration, Calendar Systems and Astronomical Knowledge of the Mayas,
Cambridge, Mass., 1910.
[100] Hermann Beyer, El llamado “Calendario Azteca,” Mexico, 1921, an
important study of interpretation of the calendar stone of the Aztecs.
[101] This specimen was first illustrated by Lehmann in his paper, Die
altmexikanischen Mosaiken des Ethnographischen Museums in Kopenhagen,
_Globus_, 1907. Our illustration is a drawing from the photograph
reproduced in this study.
[102] See Note 101.
[103] See Heger, 1892, in List of Works.
[104] Our drawing is from the photograph published by Lehmann in his
paper in the _Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Congress of
Americanists_, Quebec, 1907.
[105] Our drawing of this specimen is made from the illustration
published by Oppel. See List of Works, 1896.
[106] Illustrations of this piece have just been published for the
first time by Lehmann in his Altmexikanische Kunstgeschichte: Ein
Entwurf in Umrissen, Berlin, 1922(?).
[107] See Seler’s remarks to Heger’s paper, List of Works, 1890.
[108] Consult Seler, Altmexikanische Knochenrasseln, _Gesammelte
Abhandlungen_, Zweiter Band, pp. 672-694, Berlin, 1904; also Lumholtz,
Unknown Mexico, vol. ii, pp. 428-430, New York, 1902.
[109] As Colini’s paper is not easily consulted, we append his
description of these three Mexican wooden objects:
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