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The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 2, Civilized Nations, Volume 2

Note 827 — Chapter XIX · MEDICINE AND FUNERAL RITES AMONG THE NAHUAS.

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'Ponen mascaras a Tezcatlipuca, o Vitzilopuchtli, o a otro idolo.' Gomara, Conq. Mex., fol. 309. As the idols wore masks, it is more likely that a veil was thrown over the face, than that another mask should have been put on. 'Suivant une coutume antique attribuée à Topiltzin-Acxitl, dernier roi de Tollan, on mettait un masque au visage des principales idoles, et l'on couvrait les autres d'une voile.' Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. iii., p. 572. 'Mettevan una maschera all' Idolo di Huitzilopochtli, ed un'altra aquello di Tezcatlipoca.' Clavigero, Storia Ant. del Messico, tom. ii., p. 95.

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