HOLMES ANNIVERSARY VOLUME 



riano-Remensis are given in figures 2 and 3. The conquistadores are 

 distinguished from the Mexicans in this record by beards as well as 

 by dress, but Spanish facial types are not closely followed. Under 

 the year 1541 the death of Pedro de Alvarado, called Tonatiuh, or 

 Sun, by the Mexicans on account of his yellow hair, is recorded, as 

 well as the baptism of the natives 

 by the friars. The characterization 

 is by dress and style of hair-dressing. 

 Ideal Portraits of Aztec Gods. — In 

 spite of this failure to discover ac- 

 credited portraits of historical per- 

 sonages in either the sculptures or 



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Fig. 2. — Itzcoatl dies and is suc- 

 ceeded by Moctezuma I. (Codex 

 Telleriano-Remensis.) 



Fig. 3. — Pedro de Alvarado dies and the Spanish 

 friars baptize native children. (Codex Telleriano- 

 Remensis.) 



the manuscripts, we must be prepared to admit that the concept of the 

 portrait was almost if not quite realized in the faces of the greater 

 gods. Many of the Aztec gods were, to be sure, characterized by faces 

 so grotesque and unhuman that we cannot justly compare the gross 

 differences in their features with the more subtle differences in con- 

 tour and expression among human beings. But while such divinities 

 as Tlaloc and Ehecatl have to be thrown out of consideration as being 

 too little humanized, the same ruling does not hold against, for in- 

 stance, Chalchiuhtlicue, Goddess of Water. She is personified as a 



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