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Fig. 14. Tribute : ten times four hundred, or 

 four thousand mats, and as many seats 

 of rushes. 



Fig. 15. Tribute : four hundred sea shells from 

 the coast of Colima. 



Fig. 16. Tribute: eight thousand bales of copal. 



Plate LIX. Fig. 1. " The figure, a, is a woman 

 just delivered. Her child is placed in 

 the cradle, c ; . and four days after, 

 marked by the four rounds, b, the mid- 

 wife, d, carried the infant into the court 

 of the house of the woman delivered, 

 and placed it on rushes, called title, i, 

 spread on theground; three young boys, 

 f, g, h, seated near these rushes, ate 

 ixlcue or toasted maize mixed with 

 boiled beans, represented in the figure 

 before them in a vase. The midwife, 

 having washed the child, tells the boys to 

 pronounce aloud the name it is to bear. 

 When the infant was carried to be wash- 

 ed, if it wereaboy, they put into his hands 

 the tools, e, appropriate to his father's 

 trade ; a shield and darts, for instance, 

 if the father were a soldier : and if the 

 infant were a girl, a spindle or distaff, l 9 

 a basket, ?n, a broom, k. When this ce- 

 remony of baptism and ablution was 

 finished, the midwife restored the child 

 to its mother. If the boy were the 



