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age, &quot; and in its mouth were inserted teeth taken from the 

 Spaniards whom they had killed.&quot; 



Other parts of the head, easily detached and carried, also 

 serve. AY here many enemies are slain, the collected ears 

 yield in small bulk a means of counting; and probably 

 Zengis Khan had this end in view when, in Poland, he 

 &quot; filled nine sacks with the right ears of the slain.&quot; J^oses, 

 again, are in some cases chosen as easily enumerated tro 

 phies. Anciently, by Constantino A 7 ., &quot; a plate of noses 

 was accepted as a grateful offering; &quot; and, at the present 

 time, the noses they have taken are carried by soldiers to 

 their leaders in Montenegro. That the slain Turks thus 

 deprived of their noses, even to the extent of five hundred 

 on one battle-field, were so treated in retaliation for the 

 decapitations the Turks had been guilty of, is true; but 

 this excuse does not alter the fact &quot; that the Montenegrin 

 chiefs could not be persuaded to give up the practice of pay 

 ing their clansmen for the number of noses produced.&quot; 



352. The ancient Mexicans, having for gods their dei 

 fied cannibal ancestors, in whose worship the most horrible 

 rites were daily performed, in some cases took as trophies 

 the entire skins of the vanquished. &quot; The first prisoner 

 made in a war was flayed alive. The soldier who had cap 

 tured him dressed himself in his bleeding skin, and thus, 

 for some days, served the god of battles. . . . He who was 

 dressed in the skin walked from one temple to another; men 

 and women followed him, shouting for joy.&quot; AA T hile we 

 here see that the trophy was taken primarily as a proof of 

 the victor s prowess, we are also shown how there resulted 

 a religious ceremony: the trophy was displayed for the sup 

 posed gratification of deities delighting in bloodshed. 

 There is further evidence that this was the intention. &quot; At 

 the festival of the goldsmiths god Totec, one of the priests 

 put on the skin of a captive, and being so dressed, he was 

 the image of that god Totec.&quot; Xebel (pi. 3, fig. 1) gives 



