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Turquois mosaic art in ancient Mexico

Note 38 — THE AZTEC LAPIDARIES AND THEIR WORKS

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Eduard Seler, L’Orfèverie des Anciens Mexicains et leur Art de Travailler la Pierre et de Faire des Ornements en Plumes, Compte rendu de la VIIIᵉᵐᵉ Session du Congrès International des Américanistes, Paris, pp. 401-452. The chapter on the art of the lapidaries is on pp. 418-425. The article, with slight changes in the French translation of the Nahuatl text, and some revision, is included in Seler’s Gesammelte Abhandlungen zur Amerikanischen Sprach- und Alterthumskunde, Zweiter Band, pp. 620-663, Berlin, 1904. The section on the lapidaries’ art is on pp. 635-640.

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