Inga Clendinnen - Aztecs: An Interpretation

Beacon Press for the Nahuatl lament on p. 382, from The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico , by Miguel Len-Portilla. Copyright 1966 by Beacon Press. Professor Gordon Brotherston, University of Essex, and Thames and Hudson Ltd. for the song-poems on pp. 313 and 314315, from Image of the New World: The American Continent as Portrayed in Native Texts , by Gordon Brotherston with Ed Dorn. Copyright 1979 by Thames and Hudson Ltd. Dr. T. J. Knab, Shandaken, N.Y., for the Nahuatl poem on p. 372, from Words Great and Small: Sierra Nahuatl Narrative Discourse in Everyday Life, 1983. Unpublished manuscript. Latin American Indian Literatures Journal , for the song-poems on pp. 312 and 314, from Andrew O. Wiget, Aztec Lyrics: Poetry in a World of Continually Perishing Flowers, Latin American Indian Literatures 4: 111, 1980, and for the song-poem on p. 302, from Miguel Len-Portilla, Translating Amerindian Texts, Latin American Indian Literatures 7: 10122, 1983. Copyright 1980 and 1983 by Latin American Indian Literatures. Stanford University Press for the song-poem on p. 313, from Cantares Mexicanos: Songs of the Aztecs , translated by John Bierhorst. Copyright 1985 by Stanford University Press. University of Oklahoma Press for the song-poem on p. 311, from Pre-Columbian Literatures of Mexico , by Miguel Len-Portilla, translated from the Spanish by Grace Lobanov and Miguel Len-Portilla. Copyright 1969 by the University of Oklahoma Press.

Color illustrations: New Fire Ceremony; a page from a tonalamatl; Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca; the festival of Ochpaniztli; Tlazolteotl giving birth: From the Codex Borbonicus, by courtesy of Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt: Codices Selecti (Series C, Mesoamerican Manuscript), Vol. 44, Complete true-colour facsimile edition, and the Bibliothque de lAssemble nationale Franaise, Paris. Feathered headdress: By courtesy of the Museum fr Volkerkunde, Vienna. Warrior costumes: From Codex Mendoza, by courtesy of the Bodleian Library, Oxford. The Milk Tree: From Vaticanus Latinus 3738 (Codex Vaticanus A., Rios), photograph Biblioteca Vaticana, by courtesy of the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Rome. Coatlicue; Coyolxauhqui Relief, Templo Mayor Project: By courtesy INAH.-CNCA.-MEX., Mexico. Seated Xipe Totec: By courtesy of the Museum fr Volkerkunde und Schweizerisches Museum fr Volkskunde, Basel. The red Xipe Totec: Courtesy of F. Hbert-Stevens and Claude Arthaud.

Black and white illustrations: The Spanish view of ritual killings: Codex Magliabechiano, by courtesy of the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale of Florence. Tira de la peregrinacin: By courtesy of the Biblioteca Nacional de Antropologa e Historia, Mexico City. The Eagle Man flies upwards: Malinalco Drum, by courtesy of INAH.-CNCA.-MEX., Mexico. The Face of Battle, Tlazolteotl giving birth: By courtesy of the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collections, Washington, D.C. Aragonite squash; granite rattlesnake: By courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum, London. Quetzalcoatl figure: Upright Feathered Serpent: By courtesy of the Museum fr Volkerkunde, Vienna. Red porphyry Quetzalcoatl: By courtesy of the Muse de lHomme, Paris. Deerskin screenfold: By courtesy of the Board of Trustees of the National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside. The Spanish penetrate the main temple precinct of Tenochtitlan: Lienzo de Tlaxcala, by courtesy of the Bodleian Library, Oxford.