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portion, his fate. Thus Molina in his dictionary gives : " racion de 

 alguna, 6 cosa diputada para otro " ('' allowance of something, or a 

 thing assigned to another "), and for tlalli te-tonal, "' snerte de tierra 

 agena " (" a piece of land belonging to another person "), 



I will now proceed to describe the separate pictures and hiero- 

 glyphs. King Motecuhzoma, in the lowest divisions of the fragment, 

 below the lower cross path, is represented at full length, seated on 

 a chair woven of reeds (tepotzo-icpalli), Avliich is like the others, but 

 is provided with a back. lie is dressed in the royal blue garment 

 (xiuhtilmatli), which is woven in openwork and trinnned with a red 

 border of eyes (tenchilnauayo), probably of feather work. On his 

 head he wears the band of turquoise mosaic (xiuh-tzontli, or xiuh- 

 uitzolli). There is a small blue tongue before his mouth, the symbol 

 of speech and power (tlahtouani means both '' the one who speaks " 

 and "■ the king"''). Mexican kings are drawn in almost precisely the 

 same way in the Sahagun manuscript belonging to the Academia de 

 la Historia (see (j, figure 36), except that here is given the turquoise 

 bar (xiuh-yacamitl) which Mexican kings Avore in the jDierced sej)- 

 tum of the nose, as a distinguishing ornament, wdien they put on gala 

 dress. I have also taken from the Sahagun manuscript the terms 

 just used for the various articles of royal Mexican dress. 



Motecuhzoma means " the angry lord ". The idea of angry could 

 not well be expressed by the Mexicans in hieroglyphs; but it was 

 otherwise with the idea tecuhtli, " lord ", " prince ". To express this 

 idea they merely drew and painted the turquoise headband (xiuht- 

 zontli, xiuhuitzolli), the emblem of kings. Thus we find both the 

 older and the younger Motecuhzoma hieroglyphically designated 

 simply by the xiuhtzontli (compare h and n, figure 30, from Codex 

 Telleriano-Kemensis, volume 4, pages 6 and 13). The former is 

 intended for the elder Motecuhzoma and the latter for the younger. 

 Usually, however, to prevent confusion, the elder Motecuhzoma is 

 hieroglyphically designated by an arrow sticking in the picture of 

 the heavens, i, a hieroglyph, which represents his other name, 

 Ilhuicamina, " he who shoots at the heavens ". The younger Mote- 

 cuhzoma, on the other hand, is more particularly designated by a 

 peculiar element added to the royal headband, which is visible in the 

 hieroglyph of our picture as well as in k, figure 3G of the Mendoza 

 codex, and Sahagun manuscript, Academia de la Historia, page 68. 

 Why this element should express the idea xocoyotl, " the younger ", I 

 can not state, and would merely mention that a similar element is to be 

 seen in the Sahagun manuscript of the Academia de la Historia on 

 the leg painted white and dotted with black, m, figure 36, which rep- 

 resents the name of the seventh Mexican king, Tizoc or Tizocic (Tiz- 

 ocicatzin). I still think it very doubtful whether o, which occurs 



