Note 1069 — Chapter XXIII · FOOD, DRESS, COMMERCE, AND WAR CUSTOMS OF THE MAYAS.
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The Itzas, men and women, wore 'faxas' 4 varas long and 1/3 vara wide. Villagutierre, Hist. Conq. Itza, pp. 312, 402, 498. At Campeche, a strip of cotton one hand wide, twisted and wound 20 or 30 times about the body. Oviedo, Hist. Gen., tom. i., pp. 512-13. This garment called mastate. Bernal Diaz, Hist. Conq., fol. 2. Ends embroidered and decorated with feathers. Landa, Relacion, p. 116. Almayzares, called in New Spain mastil; otherwise naked. Herrera, Hist. Gen., dec. i., lib. v., cap. v., dec. ii., lib. iv., cap. vii.; Cortés' Despatches, p. 4. The Chiapanecs naked except this cloth about the loins. Remesal, Hist. Chyapa, pp. 292, 302.