The Broken Spears by Miguel Leon-Portilla

Author:Miguel Leon-Portilla
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2010-10-01T04:00:00+00:00

1 Argemone mexicana, an edible plant, also used in medicines.

2 Jacques Soustelle, in La Vie quotidienne des Aztèques (Paris: Hachette, 1955), describes the maxtlatl as “a cloth that was wrapped around the waist, passed between the legs and then tied in front, with the two ends hanging down in front and in back. These ends often had decorative borders or fringes. The maxtlatl was known to the Olmecs and Mayas during the earliest period of which we have any record. At the time of the Conquest, it was worn by all the civilized peoples of Mexico except the Tarascos in the West and the Huastecas in the Northeast, who were considered rather scandalous by the inhabitants of the central valley.”

3 A paper made from the inner bark of several different trees of the genus Ficus.

4 The Aztecs had no cows, horses, pigs or other large domesticated animals. For leather and skins, therefore, they used the hides of deer and of such smaller creatures as the rabbit.

5 A part of the main temple.

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