Note 1096 — Chapter XXIV · MAYA ARTS, CALENDAR, AND HIEROGLYPHICS.
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Two spindles with golden tissue. Cortés, Cartas, pp. 3, 422. Six golden idols, each one span long, in Nicaragua. Herrera, Hist. Gen., dec. iii., lib. iv., cap. v. 20 golden hatchets, 14 carats fine, weighing over 20 lbs. Id., lib. iv., cap. vi. Houses of goldsmiths that molded marvellously. Id., cap. vii. See also Id., dec. i., lib. v., cap. v. Little fishes and geese of low gold at Catoche. Cogolludo, Hist. Yuc., p. 4. Golden armor and ornaments at Tabasco River. Id., pp. 12-13. Idols of unknown metals among the Itzas. Villagutierre, Hist. Conq. Itza, pp. 495, 497. Gilded wooden mask, gold plates, little golden kettles. Diaz, Itinéraire, in Ternaux-Compans, Voy., série i., tom. x. pp. 16, 25. Vases of chiseled gold in Yucatan. Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. ii., p. 69; Id., in Landa, Relacion, p. 32; Benzoni, Hist. Mondo Nuovo, fol. 102; Oviedo, Hist. Gen., tom. iv., pp. 39, 95, tom. i., p. 520; Peter Martyr, dec. iv., lib. i., dec. vi., lib. ii., vi.; Torquemada, Monarq. Ind., tom. i., p. 354; Godoi, in Ternaux-Compans, Voy., série i., tom. x., p. 178; Squier's Nicaragua, (Ed. 1856,) vol. ii., p. 346. Respecting a copper mask from Nicaragua and two copper medals from Guatemala, see vol. iv. of this work.