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Tizoc, great lord of the Aztecs, 1481-1486 (1929)

Saville, Marshall H. (Marshall Howard), 1867-1935 · New York, Museum of the American Indian, Heye foundation · leaf 72

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d astrological codex or book, for the covering of "grass" is unquestionably plaited, indicating a woven material. Below the coffer are two incense burners, the tlecuilli, or fire vessels, of a type often seen in the codices and found with frequency in the debris of ancient sites in the Valley of… … famous Montezuma the Elder Fig. 15. — Feature of fhe upper part of the commemorative tablet as de- in the year 7 acatl (1447). It picted in the Codex Borbonicus is not with surprise therefore that we find recorded on the stone, in the space just above the coffer, the date 7 acatl, which can refer…

Tizoc, Emperor of Mexico, d. 1486

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