

i ( 'oUeoUon of 



Fios. L3 and l K however, may have a hierogly] Ideal Bignifi- 

 canoe. The Latter In.. 1 \ i is a fragment oi a thin plato, of the 



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71" 



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IV. s. 18, 14. 

 ohlhuitl engraved pi 



same stone with the objects already described, two inches and 

 eight-tenths in length by two inches and three-tenths broad 

 and two-tenths of an inch thick, engraved on both Burfaces 

 and cut through with ornamental devices. 



Fio. I 5 i- an engraving of one of a number oi hat-shaped ob- 





bone under notice, pierced through, so as to Leave 

 a very thin rim and walls, and obviously designed to hold 

 those penachos or clusters of feathers which the Spanish con- 

 quei often describe, and which are so conspicuous in the 



I ornaments represented on the monuments and in the abo- 

 riginal paintings of Mexico, Central America, and Tern. 

 acli two inches and two-tenths in diameter over the 

 . one inch and one-tenth high, with a bore of eight-tenths 

 of an inch in diameter. 



The relics above described are fair types of the chalchihuitls 

 found a) bul I po >me other worked and en- 



. worth mentioning, perhaps, in this con 



of tie 



