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lioldiiig flowers in one hand, and a reed with a- 
cylinder of odoriferous resin at the end, in the 
other.” The vase which the emperor holds in 
hi« left hand has some resemblance to that 
which is seen in the hand of the intoxicated 
Indian, represented in the collection of Meur 
doza=^. The Mexican painters generally repre- 
sented kings and great nobles with naked feet, 
to indicate, that they were not born to make use 
of their legs, and that they constantly ought to 
be carried in palanquins, on the shoulders of 
their domestics 
No. 7. An inhabitant of Tzapoteca, a pro- 
vinoti which comprised the south-east part of the 
intendancy of Oaxaca. 
Nos. 8 and 9. Two women of Huasteca ; the 
dress of the latter figure is uo doubt Indian ; but 
that of No. 8 very much resembles a European 
dress. Is it a woman of the country, to whom 
the soldiers of Cortez had given a neckerchief 
and a rosary ? This is a question I shall not de^ 
cide; but I observe, that the three cornered hand- 
kerchief is seen in several Mexican paintings 
before the arrival of the Spaniards ; and that the 
pretended rosary, which is not terminated by a 
cross, may very well be one of those strings of 
beads, which existed from the most remote an- 
* Purchas, p. 1117, fig. F. 
t Codex Anon, n. 3738, fol. 60. 
