Note 341 — Chapter IX · PUBLIC FESTIVALS.
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For description of this feast see vol. iii. of this work, pp. 393-6. The authorities on Aztec festivals are: Sahagun, Hist. Gen., tom. i., lib. ii., pp. 49-218, lib. i., pp. 1-40; Kingsborough's Mex. Antiq., vol. vii., pp. 1-98; Torquemada, Monarq. Ind., tom. ii., pp. 147-56, 246-300; Clavigero, Storia Ant. del Messico, tom. ii., pp. 66-86; Las Casas, Hist. Apologética, MS., cap. clxix-clxxvii.; Motolinia, Hist. Indios, in Icazbalceta, Col. de Doc., tom. i., pp. 38-62; Gomara, Conq. Mex., fol. 326-36; Duran, Hist. Indias, MS., tom. iii., appendix, cap. iii.,; Leon, Camino del Cielo, pp. 96-100; Camargo, Hist. Tlax., in Nouvelles Annales des Voy., 1843, tom. xcix., pp. 130-7; Mendieta, Hist. Ecles., pp. 99-107; Acosta, Hist. de las Ynd., pp. 327-9, 354-6, 360-4, 382-93; Boturini, Idea, pt i., pp. 50-3, 90-3; Tezozomoc, Hist. Mex., tom. i., pp. 161-6; Herrera, Hist. Gen., dec. iii., lib. ii., cap. xv-xvii.; Purchas his Pilgrimes, tom. iv., pp. 1040-8; Gemelli Careri, in Churchill's Col. Voyages, vol. iv., pp. 490-1; Montanus, Nieuwe Weereld, pp. 221, 248, 265-7; West und Ost Indischer Lustgart, pt i., pp. 71-2; Codex Telleriano-Remensis, in Kingsborough's Mex. Antiq., vol. v., pp. 129-34; Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. i., pp. 234-5, 274-5, tom. ii., pp. 462-3, tom. iii., pp. 40-2, 498-547; Klemm, Cultur-Geschichte, tom. v., pp. 104-14; Carbajal Espinosa, Hist. Mex., tom. i., pp. 515-17, 531-51; Bussierre, L'Empire Mex., pp. 128-38; Lenoir, Parallèle, pp. 9-11.