. Ancient civilizations of Mexico and Central America. Indians of Mexico; Indians of Central America. TIIK AZTKCS 223 skirt/1 is one of the mosl Btriking examples of barbaric imagination. Tlie name Teoyamiqui is often given to this uncoutli figure, but the identifica- tion is faulty. Like the other great sculptures we have jusl examined, it doubtless occupied an im- portant place in the great ceremonial center of Tenochtitlan,but no ancient reference to it is extant. This goddess is reported to have been the mother of the Fig. 72. Detail showing the Construction of the Face of Coat- lku
. Ancient civilizations of Mexico and Central America. Indians of Mexico; Indians of Central America. TIIK AZTKCS 223 skirt/1 is one of the mosl Btriking examples of barbaric imagination. Tlie name Teoyamiqui is often given to this uncoutli figure, but the identifica- tion is faulty. Like the other great sculptures we have jusl examined, it doubtless occupied an im- portant place in the great ceremonial center of Tenochtitlan,but no ancient reference to it is extant. This goddess is reported to have been the mother of the Fig. 72. Detail showing the Construction of the Face of Coat- lkue from Two Serpent Heads meeting End to End. The statue may be described as follows: The feet are furnished with claws. The skirt is a writhing mass of braided rattlesnakes. The arms are dou- bled up and the hands are snake heads on a level with the shoulders. Around the neck and hanging down over the breast is a necklace of alternating hands and hearts with a death's head pendant. The head of this monstrous woman is the same on front and back and is formed of two serpent heads that meet face to face. The forked tongue and the four downward pointing fangs belong half and half to each of the two profile faces. Mexican Writing. The means of record em- ployed in Mexican codices are in part pictographic and in part hieroglyphic. The sequence of the his- torical events in these native manuscripts is often. 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 Spinden, Herbert Joseph, 1879-1967. New York : American Museum of Natural History
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