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his hieroglyph, the cojiper 

 l^iblioteca 



ax, from the picture manuscript of the 

 Nazionale in Florence. The various 

 things by which these gods are usually distinguished 

 in the picture manuscripts are here given distinctly 

 and well — the bicolored face, the crescent-shaped 

 nose ornament (yaca-metztli), the bicolored shield 

 (ometoch-chimalli) adorned with the same nose 

 crescent, the long necklace hanging down, made of 

 the herb malinalli (tlachayaual-cozcatl), and the 

 stone ax (iztopolli, tecpatopolli). This picture in- 

 deed gives very little assistance in determining the 

 appearance of the idol that stood in the cella of the 

 casa del Tepozteco. When I was in Cuernavaca I 

 saw in the house of the licenciado Cecilio Kobelo a 

 stone image, which originally came from Tepoxtlan. 

 I made a hasty sketch of it at the time, which is re- 

 produced ill figure 88. There was a very similar stone image from 



FiG.88. Stone idol 

 from Tepoxtlan. 



Fig. 89. Stone figure from the Utide collection. 



