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appendage of cloth and feathers, which served 

 to deaden the stroke of the dart ; its form reminds 

 us of the bucklers 3 which we find represented on 

 several vases of Grsecia Magna. The club, 

 carried by the warrior, No. 3, was hollow, and 

 contained stones, which were flung- with prodi- 

 gious force, as if they were thrown from a sling. 

 The figure, No. 4, represents one of those intre- 

 pid soldiers, who went almost naked to war, 

 with the body wrapped in a net of large meshes, 

 which they threw over the head of the enemy, 

 as the Roman retiarii in a contest with the mir- 

 millones. No. 5 is a private soldier, who wears 

 a cloth cloak, and a very narrow belt of skin, 

 maxtlatl, around his waist. 



The figure, No. 6, represents, as the Codex 

 Vaticanus expressly indicates, the unfortunate 

 Montezuma II, in a court dress, such as he wore 

 in his palace. His robe, tlachquauhjo, is bor- 

 dered with pearls ; his hair turned back to the 

 top of his head, and tied with a red riband, the 

 military distinction of princes, and the most 

 valiant commanders : his neck is ornamented 

 with a collar of precious stones (cozcapetlalt), 

 but he wears neither the bracelets (matemecatl), 

 nor the boots (cozehuatl), nor the ear rings (no- 

 cochtli), nor the ring set with emeralds suspended 

 at the lower lip, which belonged to the grand 

 dress of the emperor. The author of the Codex 

 Anonymus says, " that the sovereign is figured 



