Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Observations on the Chalchihuitl of Mexico and Central America
Sahagun mentions four of the Mexican gods who were the especial patrons of the lapidaries, and honored as the inven tors of the art of working stones and ohalc/iiuites, and of drilling and polishing them. He does not, however, describe the process made use of by the Indians in cutting precious stones, because, he says, it is so common and well under stood; an omission which his editor, 'bustamente, regrets, since the art is now entirely lost.
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