[946] A list of Squier’s published writings was appended to the Catalogue of Squier’s Library, prepared by Joseph Sabin (N. Y., 1876), as sold at that time. By this it appears that his earliest study of these subjects was a review of Buxton’s Migrations of the Ancient Mexicans, read before the London Ethnolog. Soc., and printed in 1848 in the Edinb. New Philosoph. Mag., vol. xlvi. His first considerable contribution was his Travels in Cent. America, particularly in Nicaragua, with a description of its aboriginal monuments (London and N. Y., 1852-53). He supplemented this by some popular papers in Harper’s Mag., 1854, 1855. (Cf. Hist. Mag., iv. 65; Putnam’s Mag., xii. 549.) A year or two later he communicated papers on “Les Indiens Guatusos du Nicaragua,” and “Les indiens Xicaques du Honduras,” to the Nouvelles Annales des Voyages (1856, 1858), and “A Visit to the Guajiquero Indians” to Harper’s Mag., 1859. In 1860, Squier projected the publication of a Collection of documents, but only a letter (1576) of Palacio was printed (Icazbalceta, Bibl. Mex., i. p. 326). He had intended to make the series more correct and with fewer omissions than Ternaux had allowed himself. His material, then the result of ten years’ gathering, had been largely secured through the instrumentality of Buckingham Smith. (See Vol. II. p. vii.)
[947] “Art of war and mode of warfare of the Ancient Mexicans” (Peabody Mus. Rept., no. x.).
“Distribution and tenure of lands, and the customs with respect to inheritance among the ancient Mexicans” (Ibid. no. xi.).
“Special organizations and mode of government of the ancient Mexicans” (Ibid. no. xii.).
These papers reveal much thorough study of the earlier writers on the general condition of the ancient people of Mexico, and the student finds much help in their full references. It was this manifestation of his learning that led to his appointment by the Archæological Institute,—the fruit of his labor in their behalf appearing in his Report of an Archæological Tour in Mexico, 1881, which constitutes the second volume (1884) of the Papers of that body. In his third section he enlarges upon the condition of Mexico at the time of the Conquest. His explorations covered the region from Tampico to Mexico city.
[948] Library of Aboriginal American Literature, (Philadelphia.)
[949] James H. McCulloh, an officer of the U. S. army, published Researches on America (Balt., 1816), expanded later into Researches, philosophical and antiquarian, concerning the original History of America (Baltimore, 1829). His fifth and sixth parts concern the “Institutions of the Mexican Empire,” and “The nations inhabiting Guatemala” (Field, no. 987).
G. F. Lyon’s Journal of a residence and tour in the Republic of Mexico (Lond., 1826, 1828).
Brantz Mayer’s Mexico as it was and as it is, and his more comprehensive Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican (Hartford, 1853), which includes an essay on the ancient civilization. Mayer had good opportunities while attached to the United States legation in Mexico, but of course he wrote earlier than the later developments (Field, no. 1038).
The distinguished English anthropologist, E. B. Tylor’s Anahuac; or, Mexico and the Mexicans, ancient and modern (London, 1861), is a readable rendering of the outlines of the ancient history, and he describes such of the archæological remains as fell in his way.