Sus armas eran: Lanza de madera con punta de obsidiana, el arco y la flecha con punta de obsidiana, y la macana llamada macuahuitl que era un barrote o garrote de menos de un metro de largo con afiladas hojas de obsidiana incrustadas (capaces de matar o herir gravemente) y el átlatl, palanca para arrojar jabalinas tan efectiva que incluso podía atravesar mallas de acero (como lo experimentaron los españoles). Para defenderse tenían un escudo llamado chimalli hecho de madera y reforzado con tela o pieles ricamente pintadas y decorados con plumas; yelmos de madera zoomorfos cubiertos con cuero también decorados y como armaduras cotas de algodón acolchado, de un tejido tan apretado que las flechas no lo atravesaban.
English: Identifier: ancientcitiesofn00char (find matches) Title: The ancient cities of the New World : being travels and explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857-1882 Year: 1887 (1880s) Authors: Charnay, Désiré, 1828-1915 Subjects: Indians of Mexico Indians of Central America Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: DOOR-rOSTS OF HALL IN THE TENNIS-COURT OFCIUCIIEN-ITZA. Sahagun, Hist, de las Cosas de la Nueva l-spaiia, lib. 11. cap. xxxvii. Chiciien-Itza. 365 stone. These warriors are distributed in groups of two, theconqueror to the left, the vanquished to the right; the latterin the act of presenting the sacred knife he holds in his hand,as a sign of submission. Some of the warriors, instead of theknife, have a two-handed sword, macana furnished withblades of obsidian of Toltec manufacture; a few have theirnoses pierced, and wear a golden ball, or the obsidian bezotd, Text Appearing After Image: Tl/.OC S STONE, IN MEXICO. on their under-lip, as a badge of knighthood, which they hadadopted from the Nahuas of the Uplands. Further, eachfigure, whether in the Mexican or Maya bas-relief, wears akind of casque, fashioned in the shape of a crocodile, a bird,a serpent, or a ducks head, etc., with his name on it. Slightdifferences of style may occur here and there ; for thesemonuments belong to remote epochs, while Tizocs stoneonly dates back to 1485 ; but the fact that they are found at i66 The Ancient Cities of the New World. a distance of more than 900 miles from each other does notmake their resemblance less marvellous. We will end our comparisons with a description of the follow-ing statues, which ought to convert the most obstinate to ourtheory. One was discovered at Chichen-Itza five or six yearsago, by Leplongeon, an American explorer; the other in theneighbourhood of Tlascala, close to Mexico, at a considerabledistance from the former. The two statues represent the Toltec KAL Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.