Note 588 — Chapter XV · NAHUA ARTS AND MANUFACTURES.
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Cortés, Cartas, pp. 109, 100-1. In the collection of Nezahualcoyotzin 'no faltava alli ave, pez ni animal de toda esta tierra, que no estuvìese vivo, ó hecho figura y talle, en piedras de oro y pedrería.' Ixtlilxochitl, Hist. Chich., in Kingsborough's Mex. Antiq., vol. ix., p. 244. 'There is no fourefooted beast, no foule, no fyshe, which their Artificers have once seene, but they are able to drawe, and cutte in mettall the likenesse and proportion thereof, euen to the lyfe.' Peter Martyr, dec. v., lib. x., iv. Eight gold shrimps of much perfection. Oviedo, Hist. Gen., tom. iii., p. 285; Pimentel, Mem. sobre la Raza Indígena, p. 56.