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when those who for '20 days had worn the skins of the sacrificed vic- 

 tims, out of special devotion to Xipe, carried them in solenni proces- 

 sion to a certain phice in Xipe's temple. Tliis was called eua-tlati-lo, 

 " the hiding- or putting away of the skins ". 



The twenty-fifth s(|uare is blank. In the twenty-sixth square a 

 head is drawn which the writing above it calls Teilpitzin, that is. 

 " he who binds people ". The hieroglyph shows a rope tied in a knot, 

 a sufficiently intelligible symbol. 



This ends the list. Few familiar names are mentioned, as we see, 

 and these belong to about the same i3eriod. They are all the direct 

 successors of Motecuhzoma, excepting the first one, Cuitlauatzin 

 (c, figure 37), who, it is well known, died of smallpox after reigning 

 a few Aveeks, and Avho, excepting the last tAvo gobernadores, Cece- 

 patitzin, who succeeded Teuetzquititzin, and his. successor, Nanacaci- 

 pactzin, were the last of the ancient royal family to exercise any kind 

 of royal authority. It therefore seems as though our fragment 

 treated of territory which was a roj^al demesne, but which after Mote- 

 cuhzoma's death probably did not pass as a Avhole to hi^ successors, 

 but was in part divided with others. 



It is my opinion that this manuscript formed a part of the col- 

 lection brought together b}^ Boturini, and that it is described as num- 

 ber 8, section 8, in his Museo Indiano. Boturini there gives the 

 folloAving description: Otro mapa en papel indiano, donde se pin- 

 tan, al parecer y por lo que se puede clecir aliora, unas tierras sola- 

 riegas de senores, empezando de dicho Emperador Moteuchziima, y 

 siguiendo a otros hasta los tiempos de la cristiandacl ("Another 

 map on Indian paper, where are painted, apparently and so far as 

 can be said now, lands belonging to different lords, beginning with 

 the said Emperor Moteuchziima, and afterward to others down to 

 the times of Christianity"). 



FRAGMENTS III AND IV 



These (plates viii and ix) are two fragments of a larger manu- 

 script, which belonged to the collection of the Cavaliere Boturini. In 

 the inventory of the collection made after Boturini's imprisonment 

 it is described in the fourth list, under numl)er 20, in the following 

 words: Un mapa grande, papel de maguey gordo con pinturas toscas, 

 nuiy maltratado; trata de las cosas de la con(|uista de Cuanmana y 

 otros lugares, de los Espanoles, con unos rios de sangre, que indican 

 las batallas crueles que hubo de los Indies ("A large map on coarse 

 aloe paper, with rude paintings, in very bad condition, treats of 

 events during the conquest of Cuanmana and other places by the 

 Spanish, with rivers of blood, which indicates the cruel battles which 

 they waged with the Indians ").« Boturini himself describes it as 



<" Penafiel, Monumentos del arte mexicano. Text, p. 61. 



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