Identifier: mexicancentralam28bowd (find matches)
Title: Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Bowditch, Charles P(ickering), 1842- (from old catalog) ed Seler, Eduard, 1849-1922 Förstemann, Ernst Wilhelm, 1822-1906 Schellhas, Paul, 1859- (from old catalog) Sapper, Karl Theodor, 1866- (from old catalog) Dieseldorff, Erwin P. (from old catalog) Wesselhoeft, Selma, (from old catalog) tr Parker, Alberta M., (from old catalog) tr Jay I. Kislak Reference Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Maya calendar Calendar
Publisher: Washington, Gov't print. off.
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Fig. 131. Warriors with fans, from the Mendoza codex. who had received the title Tequiua from the king and had the rightconferred on them to go as his ambassadors (embaxadores) and toserve as leaders and pathfinders in war (adalides en las guerras).They are represented with their great lances and fans (con sus
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a b Fig. 132. Messengers and traders attacked, from the Mendoza codex. lanzones y ventallos), as the translation says, and with their bodiespainted black, corresponding to their rank, and because they arebound on an official mission. In a, figure 132, I give a pair of mes-sengers of lower rank (mandones—executores y embajadores del 654 BUBEAU OF AMEBTCAN ETHNOLOGY (BULL. 28 Seiiorio de Mexico), from the Mendoza codex, page 67, who havecarried a declaration of war to the cacique of a village and are flee-ing from the now hostile region, pursued by archers. In &, samefigure, also from the Mendoza codex, page 67, we have the eventwhich occasioned the challenge—the surprise and murder of Mexi-can traders by natives of the village in question. Here, too, besidesthe carrying frame with the bale of wares and the traveling staff,we have the fan as a necessary article to be carried on a journeyas a matter of course. To these three pictures from the Mendozacodex I add still another exam

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