ANDREE, RICHARD. Sur une ancienne mosaique mexicaine. _Congrès
International des Américanistes, Compte-rendu de la septième session_,
Berlin, 1888. Berlin.
Describes the Gotha specimen (pp. 146-148).
HEGER, FRANZ. Sur quelques objets archéologiques du Mexique et
de l’Amérique du Sud. _Congrès International des Américanistes,
Compte-rendu de la septième session_, Berlin, 1888, pp. 93-97.
The author describes (p. 94) one of the mosaic pieces in the Vienna
Museum. In the discussion of this paper, Seler (p. 104) identifies the
animal-like figure as representing the god Xolotl.
1892
PI Y MARGIL, FRANCISCO. Historia de la América antecolombiana. Tomo
primero, segunda parte. Barcelona.
Two colored illustrations (opposite p. 1214) of the mosaic-handled
knife in the British Museum.
HEGER, FRANZ. Altmexikanische Reliquien aus dem Schlosse Ambras in
Tirol. _Annalen des K. K. Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums_, B. VII, Heft
4, pp. 310-400, pl. XVIII, XXII. Vienna.
In this paper Dr. Heger describes and illustrates the shield and animal
head (three views) of turquois mosaic in the Vienna Museum.
1895
READ, CHARLES HERCULES. On an ancient Mexican head-piece coated with
mosaic. _Archæologia_, vol. LIV, 16 pp., pl. XXVIII, fig. 1-6, London.
Gives in colors and describes for the first time the mosaic head-piece,
and illustrates all but one of the eight other pieces, in the British
Museum.
1896
OPPEL, A. Die altmexikanischen Mosaiken. _Globus_, Bd. LXX, Nr. 1
(June), pp. 4-12, 15 fig., Braunschweig.
Figures seven mosaic pieces in the British Museum, five pieces in Rome,
one piece in Berlin, a piece in Gotha, and a section of the shield in
Vienna.
1903
PEÑAFIEL, ANTONIO. Indumentaria Antigua Mexicana. Vestidos Guerreros y
Civiles de los Mexicanos. Mexico.
Dr. Peñafiel, in chapter XXIII, under the heading “Incrustaciones
de Mosaico,” describes some of the mosaic pieces in Europe which he
states are the most important specimens. “Of this class of works the
Museo Nacional (Mexico) can count as having only one, in the statue
of Coatlicue coming from Tehuacan.” On pl. 26 are given the British
Museum knife, and the two knife-handles in Rome; on pl. 117 one of the
masks in Rome; on pl. 118(A) the skull mask in Berlin, and (B) the mask
in Rome; pl. 123 is the femur musical instrument in Rome; and pl. 168
restorations of the knife-handle specimens with blades, in Rome. These
illustrations are all in colors, excepting the last.
1906
BUSHNELL, DAVID I., Jr. North American ethnographical material
in Italian museums. _American Anthropologist_, N. S., vol. VIII,
Lancaster, Pa.
On pp. 245-246 the author briefly describes the five mosaic pieces in
Rome, and regarding one of the masks (our pl. VII, _a_) quotes from the
inventory of the Guardaroba Medicea, 1553, showing the specimen to have
been in the Medici collection.
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