[6] This important work will be reprinted in facsimile, with a translation into English, in the author’s proposed work on the voyage of Grijalva, as mentioned in Note 3.
[7] This account will also be reprinted in facsimile, with a translation into English, in the author’s account of the voyage of Grijalva. The title is, Provinciæ Sive Regiones in India Occidentali Noviter Repertæ in Vltima Navigatione. The known copies are in the John Carter Brown Library, Providence, and the New York Public Library.
[8] I quote here from the translation made and edited by Francis A. MacNutt, De Orbe Novo, vol. II, pp. 19-20, New York, 1912.
[9] The chapters relating to the voyage of Grijalva have been translated into English by the writer and will appear in the proposed work mentioned in Note 3.
[10] Francisco López de Gomara, edition of Don Enrique de Vedia, Historiadores Primitivos de Indias, in Biblioteca de Autores Españoles, tomo I, Madrid, 1877.
[11] Eduard Seler, Ein Kapitel aus dem Geschichtswerk des P. Sahagun, p. 124, Berlin, 1890.
[12] Lehmann, in his Methods and Results in Mexican Research, Paris, 1909, writes: “Hardly less remarkable are the mosaics made of more or less precious stones, shells, etc. No less than twenty-three pieces are known in various museums, the finest being in London, Rome, and Berlin. The stones when cut to shape are embedded in a peculiar substance (tzinacanquauhcuitlatl) covering the whole surface of the object to be decorated; the latter were chiefly of wood, rarely of bone or stone. Two masks are skilfully prepared human skulls. The usual shapes are shields, helmets, knife handles and trinkets. The small cup-shaped heads and the double-jaguar in the Berlin Museum are of doubtful meaning. Most of these objects apparently come from the Eastern provinces, i. e., Tabasco. We know from other sources that it was only under king Ahuizotl, with the conquest of the Tzapotec district, that the Mexicans became acquainted with turkois-mosaics, shields, earrings, etc.” This is a translation of his Ergebnisse und Aufgaben der mexikanistischen Forschung, published in Archiv für Anthropologie, Neue Folge, band VI, heft 2 u 3, Braunschweig, 1907.
[13] See Lehmann in our List of Works Describing Mexican Mosaics, under 1906.
[14] Juan de Torquemada, Monarchia Indiana, Barcia edition, Madrid, 1732, lib. II, cap. LXXIX, p. 215.
[15] See Antonio Peñafiel, Nomenclatura Geográfica y Etimológica de México, Mexico, 1897.