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| LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. | |
| WITH NOTES BY THE ARTIST | |
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| Stone rattlesnake, from the British Museum. Title Page. | |
| 10. | Drawings of flowering plants from ancient Mexican picture-books known as the Codices Magliabecchiano, pp. 47, 74, 83; and Vaticanus A, 57 (Kingsborough). |
| 11. | A thunderstorm. Codex Vaticanus A.p.139 (Kingsborough). The downward streaks represent lightning. Up above are conventional tongues to show that the heavens are speaking. |
| 11. | Unknown shrub. Codex Laud, p. 10. |
| 12. | A snowstorm. Codex Vaticanus A.p.133 (Kingsborough). |
| 12. | Tree. Codex Dehesa, p. 4. |
| 15. | The Maya war-god, whose effigy the Spaniards almost certainly must have seen in Cozumel. Codex Dresden, p.6 (Kingsborough). |
| 16. | Eagle with serpent on a cactus. Codices Borgia, p.20; Boturini, p.2 (Kingsborough); and Fejérváry-Mayer, p. 27. |
| 21. | A human sacrifice. Codex Laud, p.8 (Kingsborough). |
| 22. | Maize (Zea mays). Codex Vienna, p. 17. |
| 26. | Tepoztecatl, one of the octli (or pulque) gods. Codex Magliabecchiano, p. 49. |
| 28. | Spider monkeys (Ateles ater). See p. 362, and the Codices Vaticanus B, p. 86; Borgia, p. 13; and Bodley, pp. 13, 32 (Kingsborough). |
| 29. | Fishes. Codex Borgia, pp. 13, 14. |
| 33. | Profile of a stone head, in the Vienna Museum, and two full faces, the one with staring eyes from the Codex Bodley, p. 16 (Kingsborough), the other from the mask of the god Xipe in the British Museum (with the flayed, outer mouth, omitted). See note to p. 76, Vol. II. |
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