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NAHUA ARTS AND MANUFACTURES.

Metals Used and Manner of Obtaining Them -- Working of Gold and Silver -- Wonderful Skill in Imitating Gilding and Plating -- Working in Stone -- Lapidary Work -- Wood Carving -- Manufacture of Pottery -- Various Kinds of Cloth -- Manufacture of Paper and Leather -- Preparation of Dyes and Paints -- The Art of Painting -- Feather Mosaic Work -- Leaf-Mats -- Manner of Kindling Fire -- Torches -- Soap -- Council of Arts in Tezcuco -- Oratory and Poetry -- Nezahualcoyotl's Odes on the Mutability of Life, and the Tyrant Tezozomoc -- Aztec Arithmetical System 473

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