Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . Fig. 131. Warriors with fans, from tlie Mendoza codex. who had received the title Teqniua from the king and had the rightconferred on them to go as his ambassadors (embaxadores) and toserve as leaders and pathfinders in Avar (adalides en las guerras).They are represented with their great lances and fans (con sus. Fig. 132. Messengers and traders attaclted, from the Mendoza codex. lanzones y ventallos), as the translation says, and with their bodiespainted black, corresponding to their rank, and because they arebound on
Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . Fig. 131. Warriors with fans, from tlie Mendoza codex. who had received the title Teqniua from the king and had the rightconferred on them to go as his ambassadors (embaxadores) and toserve as leaders and pathfinders in Avar (adalides en las guerras).They are represented with their great lances and fans (con sus. Fig. 132. Messengers and traders attaclted, from the Mendoza codex. lanzones y ventallos), as the translation says, and with their bodiespainted black, corresponding to their rank, and because they arebound on an official mission. In figure 132, I give a pair of mes-sengers of lower rank (mandones—executores y embajadores del 654 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 28 Senorio de Mexico), from the Mendoza codex, page 67, who havecarried a declaration of war to the cacique of a village and are flee-ing from the now hostile region, pursued b}^ archers. In samefigure, also from the Mendoza codex, page 67, we have the eventwhich occasioned the challenge—the surprise and murder of Mexi-can traders by natives of the village in question. Here, too, besidesthe carrying frame Avith the bale of wares and the traveling staif,we have the fan as a necessar}^ article to be carried on a journeyas a matter of course. To these three pictures from the Mendozacodex I add still another example («, fi
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