Note 851 — Chapter XIX · MEDICINE AND FUNERAL RITES AMONG THE NAHUAS.

'La colocaron en el mismo lugar en que ardió la pira.' Veytia, Hist. Ant. Mej., tom. iii., p. 9. This author says that the mouth-stone of the deceased together with the mask, robes, and ornaments were taken off before the body was placed upon the pyre; this could only have been for the purpose of dressing the wooden statue therein; the stone was, however, placed inside the urn. Ixtlilxochitl, ubi sup. Brasseur de Bourbourg calls this bundle of bones tlaquimilolli, which he says was sacredly preserved, whether of kings or braves. Nouvelles Annales des Voy., 1858, tom. clx., p. 268. In the case of Nauhyotl of Culhuacan, the bones were exhumed and placed in a statue, which was made in his honor, and deposited in a temple consecrated to him. Duran, Hist. Indias, MS., tom. i., cap. xxxix.