Chapter III: Conclusion: 86

NOTES 92

LIST OF WORKS DESCRIBING MEXICAN MOSAICS 103

ILLUSTRATIONS

PLATES

PAGE

I. Wooden shield with turquois mosaic decoration
Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation,
New York _Frontispiece_

II. Stone idol with mosaic decoration National Museum,
Mexico 22

III. _a_, Wooden staff with turquois mosaic decoration,
from Sacred cenote, ruins of Chichen Itza,
Yucatan Peabody Museum, Cambridge

_b_, Wooden rattle with turquois mosaic decoration,
from Sacred cenote, ruins of Chichen Itza, Yucatan
Peabody Museum, Cambridge 22

IV. Wooden helmet with mosaic decoration British
Museum, London 24

V. Wooden mask with turquois mosaic decoration
British Museum, London 26

VI. Wooden mask with turquois mosaic decoration
British Museum, London 28

VII. Wooden mask with turquois mosaic decoration
Prehistoric and Ethnographic Museum, Rome 30

VIII. Wooden mask with turquois mosaic decoration
Prehistoric and Ethnographic Museum, Rome 32

IX. Wooden mask with turquois mosaic decoration
Museum of the American Indian, Heye
Foundation, New York 34

X. Wooden mask with turquois mosaic decoration
Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation,
New York 36

XI. Wooden mask (fragment) with turquois mosaic
decoration Museum of the American Indian,
Heye Foundation, New York 38

XII. Wooden mask (fragment) with turquois mosaic
decoration Museum of the American Indian,
Heye Foundation, New York 40

XIII. Wooden mask with mosaic decoration Museum
of the American Indian, Heye Foundation,
New York 42

XIV. Wooden mask with mosaic decoration Museum
of the American Indian, Heye Foundation,
New York 44

XV. Wooden mask (fragment) with mosaic decoration
Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation,
New York 46

XVI. Wooden mask formerly covered with mosaic decoration
Museum of the American Indian,
Heye Foundation, New York 48

XVII. Wooden mask with turquois mosaic decoration,
from Honduras Museum of the American
Indian, Heye Foundation, New York 50

XVIII. Skull mask with mosaic decoration Ethnographical
Museum, Berlin 52

XIX. Skull mask with mosaic decoration British Museum,
London 54

XX. Wooden shield with turquois mosaic decoration
British Museum, London 56

XXI. Wooden shield with turquois mosaic decoration
State Natural History Museum, Vienna 58

XXII. Back of wooden shield illustrated in Pl. I. Museum
of the American Indian, Heye Foundation,
New York 60

XXIII. Wooden shield with mosaic decoration. Museum
of the American Indian, Heye Foundation,
New York 62

XXIV. Wooden shield with mosaic decoration. Museum
of the American Indian, Heye Foundation,
New York 64

XXV. Wooden shield (fragment) with mosaic decoration.
Museum of the American Indian, Heye
Foundation, New York 66

XXVI. Wooden shield (fragment) with mosaic decoration.
Museum of the American Indian, Heye
Foundation, New York 68

XXVII. Wooden shield (fragment) with mosaic decoration.
Museum of the American Indian, Heye
Foundation, New York 70

XXVIII. Wooden shield (fragment) with mosaic decoration.
Museum of the American Indian, Heye
Foundation, New York 72

XXIX. Wooden shield (fragment) with mosaic decoration.
Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation,
New York 74

XXX. Wooden ear-plug with mosaic decoration. Museum
of the American Indian, Heye Foundation,
New York 76

XXXI. Wooden head with head-piece, with mosaic decoration.
National Museum, Copenhagen 78

XXXII. _a_, Wooden jaguar head with mosaic decoration.
Ethnographical Museum, Berlin

_b_, Wooden head of animal and human face in
jaws with mosaic decoration. National Museum,
Copenhagen 78

XXXIII. _a_, Wooden head of animal with mosaic decoration.
State Natural History Museum, Vienna

_b_, Wooden head of monkey with mosaic decoration.
British Museum, London 78

XXXIV. _a_, Wooden two-headed jaguar figure with mosaic
decoration. Ethnographical Museum, Berlin

_b_, Wooden bird’s head with mosaic decoration.
Museum, Gotha 78

XXXV. Wooden animal figure on haunches with mosaic
decoration. British Museum, London 78

XXXVI. Wooden double-headed snake figure with mosaic
decoration. British Museum, London 80

XXXVII. Wooden figure of Xolotl god with mosaic decoration.
State Natural History Museum, Vienna 80

XXXVIII. Flint knife with wooden handle with mosaic decoration.
British Museum, London 82

XXXIX. _a_, Wooden knife handle with mosaic decoration.
Prehistoric and Ethnographic Museum, Rome

_b_, Wooden knife handle with mosaic decoration.
Prehistoric and Ethnographic Museum, Rome 82

XL. Human femur musical instrument with mosaic
decoration. Prehistoric and Ethnographic
Museum, Rome 84

TEXT FIGURES

1. Bowl filled with turquois. After Tribute Roll of Montezuma 24

2. Ten masks of turquois. After Tribute Roll of Montezuma 24

3. Small bag filled with turquois. After Tribute Roll of
Montezuma 25

4. Shields with turquois mosaic decoration. After Tribute
Roll of Montezuma 25

5. Serpent scepter with turquois mosaic decoration. After
Sahagun, manuscript of the Real Palacio, Madrid 43

6. _a_, Gold crown with turquois mosaic decoration. After
Sahagun, manuscript of the Real Palacio, Madrid

_b_, Gold crown. After Tribute Roll of Montezuma 45

7. Pottery disc with hematite mosaic decoration, from
Cuilapa, Oaxaca. American Museum of Natural History,
New York 51

8. Gold shield breast ornament with turquois mosaic decoration,
from Yanhuitlan, Oaxaca. National Museum,
Mexico 52

9. Wooden object (fragment) with turquois mosaic decoration,
from Sacred cenote, ruins of Chichen Itza, Yucatan.
Peabody Museum, Cambridge 57

10. Wooden object (fragment) with turquois mosaic decoration,
from Sacred cenote, ruins of Chichen Itza,
Yucatan. Peabody Museum, Cambridge 57

11. Rattle of the god Xipe Totec. After Sahagun, manuscript
of the Real Palacio, Madrid 58

12. _a_, _b_, _c_, Crowns with mosaic decoration, from sculptured
wall, Temple of the Jaguars, ruins of Chichen
Itza, Yucatan. After Maudslay 58

13. Mask with mosaic decoration, from sculptured wall,
Temple of the Jaguars, ruins of Chichen Itza, Yucatan.
After Maudslay 59

14. Mask with mosaic decoration, from sculptured wall,
Temple of the Jaguars, ruins of Chichen Itza, Yucatan.
After Maudslay 59

15. Mask of wood with turquois mosaic decoration. Prehistoric
and Ethnographic Museum, Rome. After
Pigorini 63

16. God Paynal with shield decorated with turquois mosaic.
After Sahagun, manuscript of the Real Palacio, Madrid 70

17. God Paynal with shield decorated with turquois mosaic.
After Sahagun, Florentine manuscript 70

18. Glyphs of the town of Culhuacan. After Codex Telleriano
Remensis 74

19. Knife handle of wood with turquois mosaic decoration.
Prehistoric and Ethnographic Museum, Rome. After
Pigorini 83

TURQUOIS MOSAIC ART IN ANCIENT MEXICO

BY MARSHALL H. SAVILLE