1891.] WARNER—NOTES ON MEXICAN ARCHOLOGY. 149 
hour, on and about the pyramids, I picked up nearly a peck of curious 
objects which consisted mostly of implements of obsidian knives, spear 
points and arrow tips. But the most common of the objects were the 
images and little heads (cabacitas) of terra cotta, which were found 
lying around everywhere. Some of these were quite grotesque. The 
accompanying cuts are taken from the figures picked up near the tem- 
ple of the sun, but are considerably reduced in size. 
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Fic. 1. Fic. 2. 
“©CapaciTas,’—oR LitrL—e HEADS FOUND NEAR THE TEMPLE OF THE SUN. 
Fic. 4.—TERRA COTTA IMAGE FOUND AT SAN JUAN TEOTIHUACAN. 
The early Aztec writers quoted by Prescott, Lord Kingsborough 
and others, give accounts of the use made of these temples in the offer- 
ing of human sacrifices. In the year 1486, at the dedication of a 
temple to their god, Huit-zil-o-poch-tli, it was recorded that seventy 
thousand human beings were sacrificed upon a single altar. In mak- 
ing the sacrifice a peculiar form of knife is described as being used by 
11, Proc. Rocu. AcaD. oF Sci., Vol. 1, October, 1891. 
