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COLUMBIAN HISTORICAL EXPOSITION AT MADRID. 



That many of the larger and more delicate ones were used unmounted 

 as knives by the ancient Central Americans and Mexicans is proved 

 by the tracings in fig. 11, showing (a) priest holding a human head from 

 the Codex Troano (Yucatan) ; (6) priest holding a human head from the 

 Codex Cortesianus (Yucatan) ; (c) priest holding a human head from the 

 relief of S. Lucia Cozumahualpa (Mexico); (d) priest holding a human 

 head from the Codex Cortesianus, and (e) priest holding human a head 

 from the Codex Troano. 



Fig. 12, with a and 1) from the Codex Dehesa (Mexico), c and / from 

 the Codex Troano (Yucatan), and e from the Codex Columbiuo (Yuca- 



Kg. 12 



TRACINGS FROM ORIGINAL DRAWINGS MADE BY THE ANCIENT PEOPLE OF YUCATAN AND MEXICO, SHOW 

 ING HOW LARGE LEAF-SHAPED STONE BLADES WERE SOMETIMES MOUNTED AS SPEARS. 



(a,T&amp;gt;) Codex Dehesa (Mexico); (c) Codex Troano (Yucatan); (d) Codex Lienzo do Tlascala (Mexico); (e) Codex Columbine; (/) 

 Codex Troano (Yucatan), and (g) Spearhead from Pike County, Arkansas. (National Museum Collection). 



tan), would suggest that some of these blades, as a, ft, e, and /, even 

 without the notched base as in g, a specimen of one of the large spears 

 common in the United States (see fig. 9), were mounted on poles as 

 spears as in a and &, and (fig. 12) the shaft seems to extend along the 

 delicate blade to protect it, while a wrapping of thong is suggested inc. 

 The diamond- shaped spear (d) from the Codex Lienzo de Tlascala 

 (Mexico) is only found in designs that suggest European contact, and, 

 as Senor Troncoso supposes, may have been a stone copy of the iron 

 weapon of the Spaniards. 



The so-called digging implements from Missouri, Indiana, Illinois, 

 Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, and Louisiana are very striking, and have 



