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Ch. 3: Turquoise

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Tylor in his " Anahuac ; or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern," p. 337; also in the "British Museum Guide to the Christy Collection " (1868), p. 20; and by Brasseur de Bourbourg in his " Recherches sur les ruines de Palenque et sur les origines de la civilization du Mexique " with drawings by M. de Waldeck (Paris, 1866). The specimens in the Copenhagen Museum have been described in " Congrès International d'anthropologie pré­historique, Compte Rendu de la 4.me Session " (Copenhagen, 1869), p. 462, and by Steinhauer in "Das königliche Ethno­graphische Museum zu Copenhagen" (1881), p. 19. The three in Berlin have been described in a lecture before the Anthro­pological Society of Berlin. Adolph Bastian claimed that one had originally been the property of Alexander von Humboldt,
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while the other two were from the Ducal Museum of Brunswick. See " Verhandlungen der Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropol­ogie " (1885), p. 201. The exact ownership of the one in Gotha does not appear to be known. Illustrations of these objects are to be found in the works of E. B. Tylor and Brasseur de Bourbourg, and notices of them appear in various books of the seventeenth century, among which are " Pyranarcha sive de fulminum natura" by Liceti (Padua, 1643), p. 143, and " Musaeum Metallicum," by Aldrovandi (Bologna, 1647), p. 550 ; " Museo Cospiano," by Legati (Bologna, 1677), p. 477; and in Clavigero "Storia antica del Messico" (Vol. IL, Book 7, Chap. 52). These mosaics are made with pieces of broken
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