Gifts from Montezuma to Cortez


 * a serpent mask inlaid with turquoise


 * a decoration for the breast made of quetzal feathers
 * a collar woven in the petatillo style with a gold disk in the center


 * a shield decorated with gold and mother-of-pearl and bordered with quetzal feathers with a pendant of the same feathers


 * a mirror like those which the ritual dancers wore on their buttocks. The reverse of this mirror was a turquoise mosaic: it was encrusted and adorned with turquoises


 * a spear-thrower inlaid with turquoise
 * a bracelet of chalchihuites hung with little gold bells pair of sandals as black as obsidian


 * a helmet in the shape of a cone, yellow with gold and set with many stars


 * a number of earrings adorned with little gold bells
 * a fringed and painted vest with feathers as delicate as foam


 * a blue cloak known as "the ringing bell," which reached to the ears and was fastened with a knot


 * a collar of fine shells to cover the breast, adorned with the finest snail shells


 * a set of little gold bells
 * a pair of white sandals
 * a headdress made of quetzal feathers, as green as if it were growing, with an ornament of gold and mother-of-pearl


 * earrings in the form of serpents, made of chaicbibuites


 * a vest adorned with chalchihuites
 * a collar also of chalchihuites, woven in the petatillo style, with a disk of gold


 * a serpent wand inlaid with turquoise


 * a mirror to be hung in back, with little bells


 * a cloak bordered with red rings
 * a diadem made of jaguar skin and pheasant feathers and adorned with a large green stone, round turquoise


 * earrings with curved pendants of shell and gold


 * a collar of chalchihuites in the petatillo style with a disk of gold in the center


 * a cloak with red borders, and little gold bells for the feet


 * a golden shield, pierced in the middle, with quetzal feathers around the rim


 * a pendant of the same feathers


 * the crooked staff of Ehecatl with a cluster of white stones at the crook, and his sandals of fine soft rubber