Note 586 — Chapter XV · NAHUA ARTS AND MANUFACTURES.
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'Porras claveteadas de hierro, cobre y oro.' Ixtlilxochitl, Relaciones, in Kingsborough's Mex. Antiq., vol. ix., p. 332. 'Nous avons eu entre les mains de beaux outils de cuivre rosette.' Viollet-le-Duc, in Charnay, Ruines Amér., pp. 86-7. 'Hazen muchas cosas, como los mejores caldereros del mundo.' Herrera, Hist. Gen., dec. iii., lib. iii., cap. ix. Some had plates and other vessels of tin. Oviedo, Hist. Gen., tom. iii., p. 465. 'Contuttociò si sa, che lavoravano bene il rame, e che piacquero assai agli Spagnuoli lo loro scuri, e le loro picche.' Clavigero, Storia Ant. del Messico, tom. ii., p. 196. Peter Martyr speaks of large copper stands or candlesticks which supported pine torches to light the courts of the better houses. Dec. v., tom. x. 'Il existait de si grands vases d'argent qu'un homme pouvait à peine les entourer de ses bras.' Baril, Mexique, p. 209; Brownell's Ind. Races, p. 94; Edinburgh Review, July 1867.