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Warrior with Feline Helmet (059.00.00)

Warrior with Feline Helmet
Hollow warrior with feline helmet. Central Mexican Highlands. Mixtec, AD 1200–1500. Polychromed ceramic. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (059.00.00)

Mexican God Xipe-Totec (065.00.00)

Mexican God Xipe-Totec
Xipe-Totec priest wearing flayed human skin. Central Mexican Highlands. Aztec, AD 1400–1521. Painted volcanic basalt. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (065.00.00)

Choker with Nineteen Death Heads (066.00.00)

Choker with Nineteen Death Heads
Choker with nineteen death’s heads. Mexico. Mixtec, AD 1200–1500. Carved shell. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (066.00.00)

Map of Tenochtitlán (060.00.00)

Map of Tenochtitlán
Hernán Cortés. Praeclara Ferdina[n]di Cortesii de noua maris oceani. . . (Enlightenment of Ferdinand Cortés concerning new facts about the new sea and the ocean . . .). Nuremberg: Peypus, 1524. Facsimile. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (060.02.00)

Descendents of Moctezuma (061.00.03)

Descendents of Moctezuma
Hernán Cortés. Dowry agreement for Montezuma’s daughter, June 27, 1526. Copied from a Spanish manuscript, [Valladolid], ca. 1750. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (061.00.03)

Early History of the Spanish Conquests (062.01.02)

Early History of the Spanish Conquests
Francisco López de Gómara (1511–1564). The pleasant historie of the conquest of the West India, now called New Spayne: atchieued by the vvorthy prince Hernando Cortes, marques of the valley of Huaxacac, most delectable to reade/translated out of the Spanishe tongue by T.N., anno 1578. London: Henry Bynneman, [1578]. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (062.01.02)

A Different View of Conquest (063.00.03)

A Different View of Conquest
Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1496–1584). Historia verdadera de la conqvista de la Nueva--España (True history of the conquest of New Spain). Madrid: Imprenta del Reyno, 1632. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (063.00.03)

History of Tlaxcala (064.00.03)

History of Tlaxcala
Diego Muñoz Camargo (ca. 1529–1599). Fragmentos de la Historia de Tlaxcala. 1852 manuscript copy of original ca. 1560–1592. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (064.00.03)

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