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COSTUMES 
DELINEATED BY THE 
MEXICAN PAINTERS IN THE TIME OF 
MONTEZUMA. 
PLATE XIV, 
These nine figures are taken from the Codex 
Anonymus^ No. 3738, preserved among the 
manuscripts of the Vatican, which we have ha,d 
occasion to cite several times. They are copies 
of pictures made by Mexican painters at the 
time of the first abode of Cortez at Tenoch- 
titlan. P. Rios, in tracing the drawings, ap- 
pears to have been more attentive to the parti- 
culars of the dresses, than to a faithful imitation 
of the outlines. On comparing the paintings of 
Plate fourteenth with those contained in the 
original manuscripts that have reached us, we 
see, that the figures copied by the Spanish 
monk are somewhat too much lengthened. 
These alterations of form are every where found, 
when the artists have not been sufficiently im- 
