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the king at Uxmal trembled, for an old prophecy declared that when such music should be heard the monarch must give up his throne to the musician. A peculiar duel was agreed upon between the two, each to have four baskets of cocoyoles, or palm-nuts, broken on his head. The Dwarf was victorious and took the dead king's place, having the Casa del Adivino built for his palace, and the Casa de la Vieja for his grandmother.40 The old sorceress soon died, and the new king, freed from all restraint, plunged into all manner of wickedness, until his gods, or idols, abandoned him in anger. But after several attempts the Dwarf made a new god of clay which came to life and was worshiped by the people, who by this worship of an evil spirit soon brought upon themselves destruction at the hands of the outraged deities, and Uxmal was abandoned.

For this tradition we have only Brasseur's conjectural, but not improbable, interpretation to the effect that the Tutul Xiu throne at Uxmal, in the earlier part of the thirteenth century perhaps, was usurped by a chief of another family, known in tradition as the Dwarf, or the Sorcerer. It is not unlikely that the usurping king was of the Cocome family and that he succeeded in his attempt by the aid of the priesthood. Whoever may have been at its head, the new dynasty was in its turn overthrown apparently by religious strife, and Uxmal ceased to be a capital or centre of temporal power in Yucatan, although its temples may still have been occupied by the priesthood. From the fact that the Maya record, or Perez document, speaks only of Mayapan after this period, it is not unlikely that the Tutul Xiu power was transferred to that ancient capital, after the downfall of its representative at Uxmal. Near the end of the thirteenth century Mayapan was conquered by a foreign army of Uitzes, or mountaineers, the reference being perhaps to a raid of one of the 40 See vol. iv., pp. 172, 192-7

earlier Quiché emperors from Utatlan. For a century and a half, a period of contention between rival dynasties and tribes, we have, besides a few reported predictions of coming disaster, only one definite event, the flight of a band of Itzas under Canek, and their settlement on the islands in Lake Peten, where they were found, a most flourishing community, by the Spaniards. No definite date is given to their migration-or elopement, for a lady was at the bottom of the affair, as some say-except by Villagutierre, who places it in 8 Ahau, or between 1441 and 1461.a1

42

Also between 1441 and 1461, Mayapan was finally ruined in the contentions of the factions, and abandoned at the death of a monarch called by some authors Mochan Xiu; the Tutul Xius then seem to have retired to Mani, which was their capital down to the Conquest. For twenty years after the final destruction of Mayapan the tribes are said to have remained at peace and independent of each other; but the remaining century, down to 1561, was one of almost continual inter-tribal strife, of which there is no detailed record, but which, with hurricanes, famine, deadly pestilence, and constantly recurring omens and predictions of final disaster, so desolated and depopulated the country, that the Spaniards found the Mayas but a mere wreck of what they once had been, fighting bravely, but not unitedly, against the invaders. 43

41 Cogolludo, Hist. Yuc., pp. 507-8; Villagutierre, Hist. Cong. Itza, pp. 29-31, 401-2, 488-91; Waldeck, Voy. Pitt., pp. 24, 36, 41; Stephens' Yucatan, vol. ii., p. 200; Gondra, in Prescott, Hist. Conq. Mex., tom. iii., p. 98; Ternaux-Compans, in Nouvelles Annales, tom. xcvii., pp. 51-2; Squier's Cent. Amer., pp. 547, 550-1.

42 Herrera, dec. iv., lib. x., cap. ii., iii.; Torquemada, tom. iii., p. 132; Cogolludo, Hist. Yuc., pp. 100, 179; Landa, Relacion, pp. 50-2, 62;* Villagutierre, Hist. Cong. Itza, p. 28; Stephens' Yucatan, vol. i., pp. 140-1; Gallatin, in Amer. Ethno. Soc., Transact., vol. i., pp. 172-3. Landa makes the date 100 years before the Conquest, that is 1446. Villagutierre and Cogolludo say 1420. Herrera says 70 years before the arrival of the Spaniards, and 500 years after its foundation. Gallatin makes it 1517 or 1536.

43 Landa, Relacion, pp. 58-64; Herrera, dec. ii., lib. iii., cap. i., dec. iv., lib. x., cap. iii.; Cogolludo, Hist. Yuc., pp. 97-100, 185; Gomara, Hist. Ind., fol. 63; Villagutierre, Hist. Cong. Itza, pp. 35-7; Torquemada, tom. iii., pp. 132-3; Alcedo, Dicc., tom. iii., p. 473; Remesal, Hist. Chyapa, pp.

INDEX.

The Index refers alphabetically to each of the ten or twelve thousand
subjects mentioned in the five volumes of the work, with numerous cross-
references to and from such headings as are at all confused by reason of
variations in orthography or from other causes. In describing aboriginal
manners and customs, the tribes are grouped in families, and each family,
instead of each tribe, has been described separately; consequently, after
each tribal name in the Index is a reference to the pages containing a de-
scription of the family to which the tribe belongs; there is also an additional
reference to such pages as contain any 'special mention' of the tribe. For
example, information is sought about the Ahts. In the Index is found
'Ahts, tribe of Nootkas, i., 175-208; special mention, i., 177, 180-1,' etc.
All the matter relating to the Nootka family on pp. 175-208, is supposed to
apply to the Ahts as well as to the other tribes of the family, except such
differences as may be noted on pp. 177, 180-1, etc. If information is sought
respecting the burial rites or any particular custom of the Ahts, a more
direct reference to the exact pages will be found under 'Nootkas,' where the
matter relating to that family is subdivided. The matter in the last three
chapters of vol. v. is referred to in the earlier letters of the Index by chap-
ters instead of pages. No table of abbreviations used is believed to be
needed.

A

Aba, iii., 354, see Aoa.
Abah (Abagh), Tzendal day, ii., 767;
name for Atitlan, v., chap. xi.
Abajo Val., Hond., antiq., iv., 70.
Aban, Mayapan ruler, v., chap. xiii.
Abbato-tinneh, Kutchin dialect, iii.,
587.

Abchuy Kak, Maya god, iii., 467.
Abiquiu, locality of Utahs, i., 465.
Abmoctacs, Cent. Cal. tribe, i., 363-
401; location, i., 452.
Abó, New Mex., antiq., iv., 663.
Abortion, i., 169, 197, 242, 279, 390,
634, 773; ii., 183, 269, 469-70.
Abrevadero, Jalisco, antiq., iv., 577.
Ac, herb, Yucatan, ii., 698.
Acacebastla, locality, Cent. Amer.,
iii., 760.

Acachinanco, locality, Mexico, iii.,
298; v., 507.

Acalli, canoes, ii., 398.
Acamapichtli I. king of Culhuacan,
v., 341-54.

Acamapichtli II., king of Mexico,
v., 354-62, 492.

Acanum, Maya god, ii., 698.
Acapichtzin, Toltec hero, v., 213, 246.
Acapipioltzin, a Chichimec prince,
v., 428, 450-1.

Acaponeta, province in Jalisco, i.,
609, 671; v., 509.
Acapulco, city in Guerrero, i., 678,
ii., 109.

Acat, Maya god, iii., 467.

Acatentehua, a Tlascaltec chief, v., | Acnagis, Cent. Cal. tribe, i., 363-401;

INDEX.

Adultery, i., 350-1, 390, 412, 509-10,
660, 728-9, 770; ii., 464-6, 658, 673-5,
see also Fornication.
Adze, Koniaga and Nootka imple-
ment, i., 80, 189.
Aé, Acagchemem 1st woman, iii., 164.
Aestaca, Cent. Cal. tribe, i., 363-401;
location, i., 454.

Affats-tena, tribe of Nehannes, i., 149.
Agaab, Guatemala tribe, i., 687-711;
location, i., 789; special mention,
v., chap. xi.

Agalta Valley, Hond., antiq., iv., 70.
Agaraits, North Cal. tribe, i., 327-61;
location, i., 445.

Agate, i., 343, 495; ii., 164, 751; iv.,
469, 479, 554, 678, 715.
Agave, see Maguey.

Ages of the World, Nahua myth., ii.,
504-5; iii., 64-5.
Aggitkkals, tribe of Shoshones, i.,
422-42; location, i., 463.
Aghual, Chiapan day, ii., 767.

Aglegmutes (Aglegmjuten, Agoleg-|