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which, together with xiuh-xayacatl, or coa-xayacacatl, the snake mask 

 of turquoise mosaic, forms the most conspicuous piece of adornment 

 of the god known as Quetzalcouatl in the legend cycle of Tollan," was 

 a headdress similar to that worn by the god in the manuscript of the 

 Rihlioteca Nazionalo. Being convinced of this, I could accept Mrs 

 NuttalTs conjecture that the upper part of the hieroglyph apanecatl 

 in the Boturini codex was intended to represent an apanecayotl. 

 While I fully recognized that the interpretation offered by Mrs 

 Nuttall was not unwai'ranted, I still believed that the other con- 

 struction, given by von Hochstetter, which is based on an old oil 

 painting in the Bilimcc collection, was not to be set aside. For, six 

 months before, during an inspection of the Aubin-Goupil collection, 

 I had discovered the original of the Bilimec warrior in the figure of 

 King Axayacatl, who advances to ])attle against the arrogant Mociuiuix, 

 king of Tlatelolco, with the banner bound upon his back. I could 



Fig. G. Copy of figure in the Cozcatzin codex. 



merely allude to this in ni}^ communication of that date. For during 

 the hour which was allowed me to examine the Aubin-Goupil collection 

 I had no time for even the hastiest sketch. Doctor Uhle, who under- 

 took to defend Mrs Nuttall's views in a reply, was quite reluctant to 

 accept this statement, brought forward without proof. Fortunately, I 

 am now in a position to offer a photographic reproduction of the pages 

 in question (Cozcatzin codex, pages 14 and 15), which is taken from 

 E. Boban's published synopsis of the Aubin-Goupil collection. 



The very ffrst glance shows us that the selfsame warrior in the self- 

 same ornaments is represented here as in the Bilimec picture (compare 

 figure 6 and d, figure 9), only the latter is not a mere copy of one of the 

 figures in the Cozcatzin codex, but of kindred originals, and at any 

 rate the same tradition guided the artist in both cases. 



a Both these pieces are ascribed to Quetzalcouatl of Tollan, not only in the passage from the Anales 

 de Quauhtitlan, which I quoted in my former article, but also in the Aztec text of the twelfth book 

 of the historical work of P. Sahagun. 



