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Title: Guide leaflet
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history
Publisher: New York : The Museum
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: IMLS / LSTA / METRO

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A (iHori OF JUGCHACKS I Lf:RS. X the Observe ther>owEH Kow PrxisHiXd Malefactors. Font Jcdoes Super-64. VISE ExEcuTioxs by Noose axd Club hand jUojecting from a basket of rawmeat showed how the bodies of some ofthe sacrificed victims were utilized. Extending north from this great plaza,which even today is the center of the city,stretched the highway to Tlaltelolco. Thiswide road with a canal beside it wasfilled with the same indecisive multitudethat filled the southern artery. The sink-ing sun had brought people out on theirroof tops. Some leaned over parapets towatch the throng below, even as idlerssquatting in a shaded bit of the streettook equal interest in the slow movementsof tlie householders above them. A path and canal debouching into themain avenue led to a small square, in the Irx( n- ■////•; \\()i: oi- rn/-: .\//ri:c \\.\i: (.on. 1:5
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STAIRWAY OF THE PYRAMID OF TENAYUCA Xenr ^Mexico City. This is an excellent illustration of the dramatic quality of Aztec architecture center of which loomed a pyramid. Fromthe patio of a large buildino- shrill criesarose and the dull clash of wooden instru-ments. AAithin, a number of boys werereceiving instruction in the manual ofarms. Eacli equipped with a smallbuckler and a flat club of wood, theylearned the art of cut and parry under thescornful eye of a warrior. They dealt andreceived severe blows, but the clubs werenot toothed with the wedges of ol)sidian.the volcanic glass that made hand-to-handcombat so vicious in war. Another grou))were practising with the atlatl or throw-ing stick. The marksman laid his s))earalong a narrow wooden trough hooked atthe farther end, the nearer end beinggrasped in the hand. By lengthening thearm in this way it was possible to attaina greater propulsive force. A less animated scene took place amongthe boys of the religious training schoolon the o

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