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holding flowers in one hand, and a reed with a 

 cylinder of odoriferous resin at the end, in the 

 other." The vase which the emperor holds in 

 his left hand has some resemblance to that 

 which is seen in the hand of the intoxicated 

 Indian, represented in the collection of Men- 

 doza*. The Mexican painters generally repre- 

 sented kings and great nobles with naked feet, 

 to indicate, that they were not born to make use 

 of their legs, and that they constantly ought to 

 be carried in palanquins, on the shoulders o* 

 their domestics -J*. 



No. 7. An inhabitant of Tzapoteca, a pro- 

 vince which comprised the south-east part of the 

 intendancy of Oaxaca. 



Nos. 8 and 9. Two women of Huasteca ; the 

 dress of the latter figure is uo doubt Indian ; but 

 that of No. 8 very much resembles a European 

 dress. Is it a woman of the country, to whom 

 the soldiers of Cortez had given a neckerchief 

 and a rosary ? This is a question I shall not de- 

 cide; but I observe, that the three cornered hand- 

 kerchief is seen in several Mexican paintings 

 before the arrival of the Spaniards ; and that the 

 pretended rosary, which is not terminated by a 

 cross, may very well be one of those strings of 

 beads, which existed from the most remote an- 



* Purchas, p. 1117, fig. F. 

 t Codex Anon. n. 3738, fol. 60. 



