. Bulletin. Ethnology. 342 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 28 forming the extreme northwestern extremity of the valley of Cuern- avaca, lies the small town of Tepoxtlan. Although but 3 miles" distant from each of the cities previously named, this place, because it is situated quite away from the great highroads radiating from the capital and at the foot of the mountain, has remained until very recently little known or investigated. The ancient inhabitants, who undoubtedly were of the same race as the Tlalhuics of Cuernavaca, have in the main shared the history of the latter. Cuernavac
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 342 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 28 forming the extreme northwestern extremity of the valley of Cuern- avaca, lies the small town of Tepoxtlan. Although but 3 miles" distant from each of the cities previously named, this place, because it is situated quite away from the great highroads radiating from the capital and at the foot of the mountain, has remained until very recently little known or investigated. The ancient inhabitants, who undoubtedly were of the same race as the Tlalhuics of Cuernavaca, have in the main shared the history of the latter. Cuernavaca, the ancient Quauhnauac, was the first territory which fell into the hands of the Mexicans when they began to spread beyond the limits of the valley. In the reign of the third Mexican king, Itzcouatl, who reigned in the second quarter of the fifteenth century, the siege and subjugation of Cuernavaca is reported, and under Motecuhzoma Ilhuicamina, the king succeeding Itzcouatl, Tepoxtlan i*^ named in the Mendoza codex, together with Quauhnauac, Uaxtepec, and Yau-. a h c (J f Fig. 83. Symbols of pueblos, from Mexican codices. tepee, among the conquered cities (see hieroglyphs a to c?, figure 83). The Historia Mexicana of the year 1576 (Aubin-Goupil codex) reports in connection with the accession to the throne in the year 1487 of King Ahuitzotl, which was celebrated w^th great sacrifices of captives, that new kings had been installed in Quauhnauac, Tepox- tlan, Uaxtepec, and Xiloxochitepec (see hieroglyphs e and /). In the tribute list (Mendoza codex, page 2(3, no. 13) Tepoxtlan, the " place of the ax ", is again put with the same towns in the Uaxtepec group (see i). Cortes came into contact with Tepoxtlan in the year 1521 on his march from Yautepec to Cuernavaca, when, because the inhabitants did not voluntarily surrender, he burned the town. Bernal Diaz extols the fine women (muy buenas mugeres) and the booty which the soldiers obtained here. After the establishment
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