of the thinking behind the specific expression in art / 
These motifs might just as well represent the flower of 
the morning glory in its familiar closed form, either be- 
fore the flower has opened or when it closes at dusk, a 
form that would be appropriate for a string of them 
hanging from a pectoral. Our poet, in the third of our 
quotations above, sings of the ‘necklaces of flowers’ and 
these may well be the necklaces. Here Mrs. Seeler gives 
us the woodeut (1) of ololiuhqui published in 1651 in Fran- 
cisco Hernindez’ great herbal of Mexico,’ a detail (2) 
of this woodcut showing how easily the closed flowers 
could serve as a model for what we too casually accept 
as jaguar’s tusks, and a photograph (8) of the ornaments 
on the statue that we are discussing: 
De OLILIVHQUI, ESS 
Fig. 6 
*In this herbal ololiuhqui is misspelled oliliuhqui. Rerum medicarum 
Novae Hispaniae thesaurus, seu plantarum, animalium, mineralium mexi- 
canorum historia, Rome, 1651, p. 140. 
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