STATUE OF AN AZTECK PRINCESS. 



No. 91.— Baron de Humboldt,, in his " Researches concerning the 

 Institutions and Monuments of the Ancient Inhabitants of America" has 

 given three views of a Statue similar to this, with a trifling differ- 

 ence in the drapery on the back of the head. The lady is represented 

 sitting on her feet, which are bent under her, the common position of 

 the Indian women in the church at the present day ; her hands rest on 

 her knees, and give the appearance, at first sight, of the front of the 

 Egyptian Sphinx, to which the resemblance of the head-dress greatly 

 contributes. The Baron, by some unaccountable mistake, says the 

 figure is without hands, and that the feet are placed in front, whilst 

 his plates represent the hands and feet as they really are. 



No. 92. — Large Double Water Bottles, of black earthenware, one 

 having the head of a dog, and the other that of a bird. 



No. 93.— Idol of the Sun. 



No. 94.— A curious Idol, of stone, representing the fore part of a 

 Crocodile, terminating in sacred ornaments often met with in the 

 MSS. and Calenders ; it appears to be the only one yet discovered, 

 and weighs upwards of 5001bs. 



No. 95. — This small Serpent Idol, is of stone, and probably was 

 one of the Penates or household Gods, as every house had copies, on 

 a small scale, of the Colossal Idols in the grand Temple. 



No. 96c — A small vase-shaped Statue, in the form of the Canopus. 



No. 97-— A Statue. 



No. 98. — Several small Figures, in terra cotta ; Fragments of 

 Earthenware, &c, found on the mountains of Tezeocsingo, the Pyra- 

 mids of St. Juan de Teotihuacan. 



No. 99. — An Azteck Mirror, composed of a large plate of Obsidian, 

 polished on both sides. 



No. 100.— Temple. 



No. 101.— Model of the Pyramid of the Sun, or St. Juan de Teo- 

 tihuacan. 



The group of Pyramids in the valley of Otumba, about thirty 

 miles from Mexico, is considered to be among the most extraordi- 

 nary existing antiquities that have survived the conquest of America*. 



* Baron Humboldt, in his " Researches;" speaks of them as follows:— 

 " The group of the pyramids of Teotihuacan, is in the Valley of Mexico, 

 eight leagues north-east from the capital, in a plain that bears the name of 

 Micoath, or the Path of the Dead. There are two large pyramids dedi- 



