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Fig. 14. Tribute : ten times four hundred, or 
four thousand mats, and as many seats 
of rushes. 
Fig. 15. Tribute : four hundred sea shells from 
the coast of Colima. 
Fig. 16. Tribute: eight thousand bales of copal. 
Plate LIX. Fig. 1. The figure, a, is a woman 
just delivered. Her child is placed in 
the cradle, c ,* and four days after^ 
marked by the four rounds, 6, the mid- 
wife, d, carried the infant into the court 
of the house of the woman delivered, 
and placed it on rushes, called tide^ i, 
spread on the ground ; three young boys, 
fy g, h, seated near these rushes, ate 
ixicue or toasted maize mixed with 
boiled beans, represented in the figure 
before them in a vase. The midwife, 
having washed the child, tells the boys to 
pronounce aloud the name it is to bear. 
When the infant was carried to be wash- 
ed, if it were a boy, they put into his hands 
the tools, e, appropriate to his father’s 
trade ; a shield and darts, for instance, 
if the father were a soldier : and if the 
infant were a girl, a spindle or distaff, /, 
a basket, m, a broom, h. When this ce- 
remony of baptism and ablution was 
finished, the midwife restored the child 
to its mother. If the boy were the 
