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narrow sleeves resembles the garment^ which 
the Mexicans name ichcahuepilli ; but the net, 
which covers the shoulders, is an ornament 
no longer to be met with among the Indians. 
Below the girdle is the spotted skin of a jaguar, 
with its tail. It is related by the Spanish his- 
torians, that the Mexican warriors, in order to 
appear more terrible in combat, wore enormous 
wooden helmets in the form of a tyger’s head, 
the jaws of which were armed with the teeth of 
this animal. Two skulls, no doubt those of van- 
quished enemies, are tied to the girdle of the 
conqueror. His feet are covered with a kind of 
buskin, which reminds us of the or caligce, 
of the Greeks and Romans. 
The slaves, represented sitting cross-legged 
at the feet of the conqueror, are very remarkable 
both for their attitudes and their nudity. That 
on the left is like the figure of those saints, 
V which we frequently see in Hindoo paintings, 
and which the navigator Roblet found on the 
north-west coast of America, among the hiero- 
glyphical paintings of the natives of Cox’s chan- 
nel It would be easy to trace, in this relief, 
the Phrygian cap and the apron of 
the Egyptian statues, were we to follow the steps 
of a learned writer who, led away by the 
* Marchand’s Voyage, vol. 1, p. 312. 
t Court de Gibelin. 
