. Bulletin. Ethnology. Ilhuitl, feast. ChalehluitI, emerald. Tezcatl, Fig. 8. Disks from Mexican codices. Xipe's shield is the tlauhte^uilacachiuhqui, a round shield covered with the rose-colored feathers of the spoonbill, showing concentric circles of darker tint on its surface. It is not infrequently bisected vertically, in which case one half is divided by an oblique line into a larger lower and a smaller uj^per panel. The former has a tiger-skin design, the latter the figure of an emerald in a blue field, or one trav- ersed by wavy lines (see h, figure 7). I formerly explained the
. Bulletin. Ethnology. Ilhuitl, feast. ChalehluitI, emerald. Tezcatl, Fig. 8. Disks from Mexican codices. Xipe's shield is the tlauhte^uilacachiuhqui, a round shield covered with the rose-colored feathers of the spoonbill, showing concentric circles of darker tint on its surface. It is not infrequently bisected vertically, in which case one half is divided by an oblique line into a larger lower and a smaller uj^per panel. The former has a tiger-skin design, the latter the figure of an emerald in a blue field, or one trav- ersed by wavy lines (see h, figure 7). I formerly explained the emerald as a mirror. This is not quite correct, although in the drawing of both (mirror and emerald) the same fundamental principle of the glitteiing disk throwing rays in all (four) directions is expressed. See a, figure 8,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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