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seems, stood out short and sliti' all around the face. It is worn thus 

 by the figures of warriors in the Mendoza codex (see /. figure 37) and 

 on the head of Yacatecuhtli, the god of traveling merchants and 

 caraA^an leaders, in the Sahagun manuscript of the Biblioteca del 

 Palacio, m. This manner of wearing the hair was called temillotl, 

 '• stone-pillar hair dress ", and the great tassels were called quet- 

 zallalpiloni, " ornamental feather band ''." The name temillo, " wear- 

 ing the stone-pillar hair dress (warrior's hair dress)'', occurs fre- 

 (juently in the list of names from Uexotzinco (Manuscrit Mexicain 

 number .3, Bibliotheque Rationale), already mentioned several times, 

 and is represented there sometimes by the figure of a pillar, some- 

 times by a stone or a stone in a setting, or, finally, by a stone "in con- 

 nection with a head of dressed hair (see », figure 37). In the other 

 manner of w^earing the hair it was made to stand up high over the 

 forehead and allowed to hang down from the crown of the head over 

 the neck, where it was wound by a strap, into which a feather orna- 

 ment Avas stuck on gala occasions. This fashion is shoAvn in the pic- 

 ture of a chieftain arrayed for the dance, o, Avhich in Codices Telleri- 

 ano-Remensis and Vaticanus A designates the feast Tecuilhuitl, 

 and in the draAving of the head of Tlacochcalco yaotl in the Saha- 

 gun manuscript in the Biblioteca del Palacio, p. The chieftains 

 of the Tlaxcaltecs are also draAvn Avith this hair dress on the 

 lienzo of Tlaxcala, in the representation of the festiAdties which the 

 republic of Tlaxcala prepared for the reception of the conqueror 

 Cortes, Avhom they hailed as their ally. This manner of Avearing the 

 hair was called tzotzocolli, and the feather ornament stuck into the 

 strap, consisting of a furcated plume of heron feathers, Avas called 

 aztaxelli.^' In q I giA'e a picture from the Sahagun manuscript in the 

 Biblioteca del Palacio, in which Avarriors are represented executing 

 a dance at the feast of Ochpaniztli, Avhere these two modes of Avear- 

 ing the hair are to be seen side by side, distinctly draAvn. The 

 former, the temillotl, is the distinguishing mark of the actual chief- 

 tains, the tequiua. Motelchiuh, the great Avar chief, is therefore 

 represented Avith it in division 3 of our manuscript (plate vii). 



Finall}^, Tlacotzin,in division 5 (counting from the loAver path), 

 lias neither the royal headband nor the chieftain's hair dress, but is 

 represented simply wdth hair hanging straight doAvn, Avithout any 

 insignia whatever. He was drawn wdthout the royal headband, 

 because at that time he AAas probably not yet in possession of the 

 royal poAver AA-hich was afterAvards conferred upon him. Nor Avas 

 the warrior's hair dress appropriate to him, because the title ciua- 

 couatl, Avhich he bore, Avas apparently not a military one. I will 

 mention, hoAvever, that aboA-e Tlacotzin, in division 6, there Avas 



" VeioITentlichnngen aus dem Koniglichen Museum fiir Volkerkunde, v. 1, p. 140. 

 * A^eroffentlichungen aus dem KonigUclien Museum fiir A'olkeikunde, v. 1, p. 166. 



