LEHMANN, WALTER. Altmexikanische Mosaiken und die Geschenke König
Motecuzomas und Cortés. _Globus_, Bd. XV, Nr. 20, pp. 318-322,
Braunschweig, 29 Nov.
In this study Lehmann enumerates the twenty-three Mexican mosaic pieces
in European museums and gives considerable documentary material from
the early chroniclers.
1907
KUNZ, GEORGE FREDERICK. Gems and precious stones of Mexico. Mexico.
On pp. 7-10, Dr. Kunz discusses turquois and describes some of the
turquois mosaic specimens in European museums. On p. 52 he concludes
that “it must be considered as possible, at least, that other
localities containing turquois were once known, and may be hereafter
re-discovered.”
LEHMANN, WALTER. Altmexikanische Mosaiken in Kgl. Museum für
Völkerkunde zu Berlin. _Congrès International des Américanistes, XVᵉ
Session, tenue à Quebec en 1906_, tome II, pp. 339-349, 4 fig., Quebec.
Describes and illustrates two pieces of Mexican mosaics in the
Ethnographical Museum of Berlin, a double-jaguar figure, and a jaguar
head. The first came from the estate of Alexander von Humboldt, the
second was transferred to the Berlin Museum from the Ducal Museum of
Braunschweig.
LEHMANN, WALTER. Die altmexikanischen Mosaiken des Ethnographischen
Museums in Kopenhagen. _Globus_, Bd. XCI, Nr. 21, pp. 332-335, 6 June,
1907. Abb. I-III.
The author describes and figures the two pieces in Copenhagen, giving
front and side views, and two different drawings of one of the masks in
Rome.
1908
DÍAZ DEL CASTILLO, BERNAL. (Maudslay, A. P., translator and editor.)
The true history of the conquest of New Spain. Edition of the Hakluyt
Society, vol. I, London.
Under the title “Montezuma’s Gifts to Cortés,” Maudslay describes
(Appendix, pp. 299-302) and illustrates (pl. 13-16) the three mosaic
masks in the British Museum. Pl. 16 is a rear view of the skull mask
showing the leather strap by which it was attached to the head. This
mask Maudslay identifies as probably that of Tezcatlipoca, and the
other two as belonging to Quetzalcoatl.
1910
GAMIO, MANUEL. Los monumentos arqueológicos de las inmediaciones de
Chalchihuites, Zacatecas. _Anales del Museo Nacional de Arqueología,
Historia y Etnología_, tome II, pp. 469-492, pls. 1-8, Mexico.
On pl. 8 are figured two pieces of mosaic-work found in the ruins near
Chalchihuites.
BLACKISTON, A. HOOTON. Recent discoveries in Honduras. _American
Anthropologist_, N. S., vol. 12, Lancaster, Pa.
Describes (p. 539) and illustrates (pl. XLVI) the mosaic wooden mask
found in 1908 in a cave in an arroyo on the headwaters of a small
stream flowing into the Rio Chamelecon, about 25 miles distant from the
ruins of the ancient city of Naco. This specimen is now in the Museum
of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. See our pl. XVII.
1912
JOYCE, T. A. A short guide to the American antiquities in the British
Museum. London.
Joyce describes (p. 14) and illustrates (figs. 12-17) six of the mosaic
pieces in the British Museum.
1914
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