Mexico to-day, a country with a great future; and a glance at the prehistoric remains and antiquities of the Montezumas . a. plasterers tkowel, 6 inches lung. b. LAVA HEADS, 5 inches high. c. iHALUS? 5 inches hi:h. J. I ASTILE HOLDEIiS. [page 176. CHAP. XX. BROKEN POTTERY AND IDOLS. 177 with some admixture of obsidian knives, arrow-heads, stonepestles, and broken plastering trowels. I have given severalplates of the objects I found on the ground. Perhaps the littlehuman heads of clay, plain, or with ornamental head-dresses,turn up in the greatest quantities. [See Plates XXIIL, XXIV.,and XXV.,
Mexico to-day, a country with a great future; and a glance at the prehistoric remains and antiquities of the Montezumas . a. plasterers tkowel, 6 inches lung. b. LAVA HEADS, 5 inches high. c. iHALUS? 5 inches hi:h. J. I ASTILE HOLDEIiS. [page 176. CHAP. XX. BROKEN POTTERY AND IDOLS. 177 with some admixture of obsidian knives, arrow-heads, stonepestles, and broken plastering trowels. I have given severalplates of the objects I found on the ground. Perhaps the littlehuman heads of clay, plain, or with ornamental head-dresses,turn up in the greatest quantities. [See Plates XXIIL, XXIV.,and XXV., at end.] As no one could give me any informationabout them, I make the suggestion that the plain heads weretypes of certain nationalities or clans, and those with ornamentedhead-dresses represent chiefs to whom they were attached, orpossibly deities whom they worshipped; if the latter, they woreprobably made by the priests and sold to the people on theoccasion of deaths or some great religious ceremony that theymight be kept by them as protection for the clay heads were of various sizes; the two larg
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