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

Note 286 — Chapter IX · PUBLIC FESTIVALS.

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Motolinia conveys the idea that the people also performed the infliction on the tongue: 'aquella devota gente ... sacaban por sus lenguas otros palillos de á jeme y del gordor de un cañon de pato.' Hist. Indios, in Icazbalceta, Col. de Doc., tom. i., p. 58.

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