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Upon Tablet 12 is an obsidian disc, perhaps intended for 
use with some form of sling. 
C 29. 
Upon Tablet 1 5 are some stone amulets, drilled for suspen- 
sion. 
Upon Tablets 16 and 17 are some amulets and beads of 
jade, serpentine, and other varieties of hard stone. 
C 30. 
Nos. I, 2, 4, 5, 6, and upon Tablet 14 are human and other 
figures carved in alabaster. 
No. 3 is a carving in stone representing an animal's head. 
Upon Tablets 7 and 8 are some serpentine and jade beads. 
Upon Tablet 9 is part of a polished mirror made from a 
nodule of iron pyrites. These so-called mirrors were frequently 
used for decorating the masks made by the Mexicans. 
Upon Tablets 10 to 13 are amulets, beads, and ornaments of 
shell. 
The specimens Nos. i, 2, 4 — 6, 9, and 14 were presented to 
the Collection by the Trustees of the Christy Museum 
H II.* 
No. I is a miniature model in wax of the Aztec Goddess of 
War (or of Death), Teoyaomiqui. The original is carved out 
of a huge block of basalt, and stands about nine feet high, with 
a breadth of five feet six inches. Some antiquaries think that 
the figures on it are intended for different personages, and that 
it represents three deities — Huitzilopochtli, the god of war, 
Teoyaomiqui his wife, and Mictlanteuctli, the god of hell. 
H II. 
No. 2 is a wax model of the Mexican calendar stone. The 
original is sculptured upon the face of a single block of basalt, 
which weighs between twenty and thirty tons. It is built into 
the base of one of the towers of the Cathedral at Mexico, in 
the Plaza Mayor, and passes by the name of "el Relox de 
Montezuma," or Montezuma's watch." This vast mass of 
basalt measures eleven feet eight inches in diameter. 
