Lehmann, Walter. Die altmexikanischen Mosaiken des Ethnographischen Museums in Kopenhagen. Globus, Bd. XCI, Nr. 21, pp. 332-335, 6 June, 1907. Abb. I-III.
The author describes and figures the two pieces in Copenhagen, giving front and side views, and two different drawings of one of the masks in Rome.
1908
Díaz del Castillo, Bernal. (Maudslay, A. P., translator and editor.) The true history of the conquest of New Spain. Edition of the Hakluyt Society, vol. I, London.
Under the title “Montezuma’s Gifts to Cortés,” Maudslay describes (Appendix, pp. 299-302) and illustrates (pl. 13-16) the three mosaic masks in the British Museum. Pl. 16 is a rear view of the skull mask showing the leather strap by which it was attached to the head. This mask Maudslay identifies as probably that of Tezcatlipoca, and the other two as belonging to Quetzalcoatl.
1910
Gamio, Manuel. Los monumentos arqueológicos de las inmediaciones de Chalchihuites, Zacatecas. Anales del Museo Nacional de Arqueología, Historia y Etnología, tome II, pp. 469-492, pls. 1-8, Mexico.
On pl. 8 are figured two pieces of mosaic-work found in the ruins near Chalchihuites.
Blackiston, A. Hooton. Recent discoveries in Honduras. American Anthropologist, N. S., vol. 12, Lancaster, Pa.
Describes (p. 539) and illustrates (pl. XLVI) the mosaic wooden mask found in 1908 in a cave in an arroyo on the headwaters of a small stream flowing into the Rio Chamelecon, about 25 miles distant from the ruins of the ancient city of Naco. This specimen is now in the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. See our pl. XVII.