# Turquois mosaic art in ancient Mexico

Author: Saville, Marshall H. (Marshall Howard), 1867-1935

Genre: Category: History - Ancient

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67027

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## Summary

The writer has undertaken the present study of Mexican Turquois Mosaics in honor of the approaching opening to the public of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, the only institution devoted exclusively to the study of the aboriginal American peoples ever established; and the proximate International Congress of Americanists to be held at Rio de Janeiro this summer. Owing to lack of time it has been impossible to obtain new photographic illustrations of all the specimens of mosaic-work in European museums, but the author desires to express his thanks to T. A. Joyce, Esq., for his courtesy in furnishing photographs of the examples in the British Museum. To Dr. Franz Heger, of...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER VI. _Of how the messengers of Montezuma returned to Mexico](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/turquois-mosaic-art-in-ancient-mexico-67027/chapters/6/index.md)
- [VOLUME VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/turquois-mosaic-art-in-ancient-mexico-67027/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV. _What Montezuma ordered when he learned the second time](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/turquois-mosaic-art-in-ancient-mexico-67027/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II. _Of the first (Spanish) ships which arrived at this land](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/turquois-mosaic-art-in-ancient-mexico-67027/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V. _Of what happened when the messengers of Montezuma entered](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/turquois-mosaic-art-in-ancient-mexico-67027/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III. _Of what Montezuma disposed after he heard the news from](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/turquois-mosaic-art-in-ancient-mexico-67027/chapters/3/index.md)