1880
Steinhauer, C. L. Das Königliche Ethnographische Museum zu Copenhagen. Hand-catalog für die Besuchenden. Copenhagen.
Describes (p. 19) the two mosaics in the Copenhagen Museum. In the 1866 edition the description is on p. 22.
1883
Brocklehurst, Thomas Unett. Mexico to-day: a country with a great future, and a glance at the prehistoric remains and antiquities of the Montezumas. London.
Describes (p. 184) and reproduces in colors (pl. XXXIII) the human-skull mask in the British Museum. Pl. XXXIV illustrates the goddess Coatlicue, showing the turquois-mosaic in colors—the specimen to which Peñafiel refers, vide 1903. See our pl. II.
1885
Colini, G. A. Collezioni etnografiche del Museo Borgiano. Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana, Roma, Anno XIX, vol. XXII; serie II, vol. X, pp. 316-325, 914-932.
In this article Colini (pp. 324-325) describes two masks and an idol in the Museo Borgiano in Rome. Regarding these specimens he quotes from Vitæ Synopsis Stephani Borgiæ, S. R. E. Cardinalis amplissimi, S. Congr. de Propaganda Fide Præfecti, Roma, 1805, p. 44, “Classis mexicana: multa lignea et testacea idolorum simulacra forma et figura singulari, ac gente mexicanæ propia.” He describes the idol as being made of wood in the form of a human figure, 45 cm. high. The two masks of wood are described, and figured on the plate containing drawings of other American antiquities. It is highly probable that these three objects were formerly decorated with mosaic.
Pigorini, Luigi. Gli antichi oggetti Messicani incrostati di mosaico esistenti nel Museo Preistorico ed Ethnografico di Roma. Reale Accademia dei Lincei, Anno CCLXXXII, 1884-1885. 9 pp., I pl. with 5 colored figs.