[156] See “The Ikonomatic Method of Phonetic Writing” in my Essays of an Americanist, p. 213. (Philadelphia, 1890.)
[157] Four skulls in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, give a cephalic index of 73.
[158] Sahagun, Historia de la Nueva España, Lib. X, cap. 29.
[159] D. G. Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry, p. 134. (Philadelphia, 1887, in Library of Aboriginal American Literature.)
[160] E. G. Tarayre, Explorations des Regions Mexicaines, p. 282. (Paris, 1879).
[161] D. G. Brinton, Essays of an Americanist, p. 366.
[162] H. de Charencey, Melanges de Philologie et de Palæographie Américaine, p. 23.
[163] Sahagun, Historia, Lib. X, cap. 29. The name is properly Tarex, applied later in the general sense of “deity,” “idol.” Tarex is identified by Sahagun with the Nahuatl divinity Mixcoatl, the god of the storm, especially the thunder storm. The other derivations of the name Tarascos seem trivial. See Dr. Nicolas Leon, in Anales del Museo Michoacano, Tom. I. Their ancestors were known as Taruchas, in which we see the same radical.
[164] Dr. Nicolas Leon, of Morelia, Michoacan, whose studies of the archæology of his State have been most praiseworthy, places the beginning of the dynasty at 1200; Anales del Museo Michoacano, Tom. I., p. 116.
[165] From the Nahuatl, yacatl, point, apex, nose; though other derivations have been suggested.