Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . um recently published withthe title Galerie Americaine du Musee dEthnographie du Troca-dero , for which the Due de Loubat, with his accustomed liber-ality, has again proAided the means. That is without question apulque god, a Tepoxtecatl, distinguished by tlie crescent-shaped nose 352 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 28 plate, the stone ax, the ear pendants, Avhich correspond exactly tothose in our figure 87, the frontal in the form of a Mexican royalcrown, examples of which are also worn by the pulque god in theBorg
Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . um recently published withthe title Galerie Americaine du Musee dEthnographie du Troca-dero , for which the Due de Loubat, with his accustomed liber-ality, has again proAided the means. That is without question apulque god, a Tepoxtecatl, distinguished by tlie crescent-shaped nose 352 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 28 plate, the stone ax, the ear pendants, Avhich correspond exactly tothose in our figure 87, the frontal in the form of a Mexican royalcrown, examples of which are also worn by the pulque god in theBorgian codex, page 26; Codex Vaticanus B, page 70 (or Codex Vati-canus 3773, page 31) and Codex Vaticanus B, page 7 (or Codex Vati-canus 3773, page 30), and lastly also by the forehead knot of Quet-zalcoatl, which is to be seen likewise on the pulque god in CodexTelleriano-Kemensis II, page 16, in Codex Vaticanus A, page 35, and,in a somewhat different form, also on page 11 of the Tonalamatl ofthe Aubin-Goupil collection. P _____ , . - . , ? r—. ^-—:?!— . , -. Fig. 91. Juego de pelota , from Tepoxtlan. In conclusion, I give in figure 91 the photographs of several otherrelics which Avere found in Tepoxtlan. The ring-shaped stone in thecenter came from a ball ground. On it there is the large figure of abird and thereunder the date 2 house (ome Calli). It is to be hoped that the interest once aroused among the patrioticinhabitants of Tepoxtlan will continue, and that further investiga-tions Avill produce other important material for the study of theancient civilization and history of these regions. I am indebted to Dr Max Buchner, of Munich, for the photographs (figs. 84 and 91),and for the plan (pi. xL), drawn by Mr Rodriguez, to Mr Marshall H. Saville, of NewYork. I was enabled to make use of the picture manuscript of the Biblioteca Nazionale inFlorence through the kindness of Mrs Zelia Nuttall, to whom I wish to express my sincerethanks. Mrs Nuttall discovered this important
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