STEVENS, EDWARD T. Flint chips. A guide to prehistoric archæology,
as illustrated by the collection in the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury.
London.
Aztec mosaic work, pp. 324-328. Describes specimens in the Christy
collection.
1880
STEINHAUER, C. L. Das Königliche Ethnographische Museum zu Copenhagen.
Hand-catalog für die Besuchenden. Copenhagen.
Describes (p. 19) the two mosaics in the Copenhagen Museum. In the 1866
edition the description is on p. 22.
1883
BROCKLEHURST, THOMAS UNETT. Mexico to-day: a country with a great
future, and a glance at the prehistoric remains and antiquities of the
Montezumas. London.
Describes (p. 184) and reproduces in colors (pl. XXXIII) the
human-skull mask in the British Museum. Pl. XXXIV illustrates the
goddess Coatlicue, showing the turquois-mosaic in colors--the specimen
to which Peñafiel refers, vide 1903. See our pl. II.
1885
COLINI, G. A. Collezioni etnografiche del Museo Borgiano. _Bollettino
della Società Geografica Italiana_, Roma, Anno XIX, vol. XXII; serie
II, vol. X, pp. 316-325, 914-932.
In this article Colini (pp. 324-325) describes two masks and an idol
in the Museo Borgiano in Rome. Regarding these specimens he quotes
from Vitæ Synopsis Stephani Borgiæ, S. R. E. Cardinalis amplissimi,
S. Congr. de Propaganda Fide Præfecti, Roma, 1805, p. 44, “Classis
mexicana: multa lignea et testacea idolorum simulacra forma et figura
singulari, ac gente mexicanæ propia.” He describes the idol as being
made of wood in the form of a human figure, 45 cm. high. The two masks
of wood are described, and figured on the plate containing drawings
of other American antiquities. It is highly probable that these three
objects were formerly decorated with mosaic.
PIGORINI, LUIGI. Gli antichi oggetti Messicani incrostati di mosaico
esistenti nel Museo Preistorico ed Ethnografico di Roma. _Reale
Accademia dei Lincei_, Anno CCLXXXII, 1884-1885. 9 pp., I pl. with 5
colored figs.
BASTIAN, A. Zwei altmexikanische Mosaiken. _Verhandlungen der Berliner
Gesellschaft für Anthropologie_, p. 201.
1888
BASTIAN, A., and UHLE, MAX. Schädelmaske von Mexico und Analogien
aus der Südsee. _Veröffentlichungen aus dem Königlichen Museum für
Völkerkunde, Herausgegeben von der Verwaltung_, Berlin, Oct.
A description (pp. 2-3) and colored illustration (T. I., I) of the
mosaic-skull mask in the Berlin Museum.
ANDREE, RICHARD. Die altmexikanischen Mosaiken. _Beitrage zur
Ethnographie von Amerika aus dem Internationalen Archiv für
Ethnographie._ Leiden.
Brief notice (p. 8) of the specimen in Gotha.
1889
ANDREE, RICHARD. Ethnographische Parallelen und Vergleiche. Neue Folge.
Leipzig.
Description (pp. 127-130) of the mosaic specimen in Gotha.
1890
PEÑAFIEL, ANTONIO. Monumentos del arte Mexicano antiguo. Berlin.
Description (Text, p. 23) and illustration in colors (Atlas, pl. 123)
of the knife with mosaic handle in the British Museum.
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