Specific acknowledgements

Aztecs Home area

• The photo of the jade and silver Aztec warrior figure (one of the pieces we take to schools) was taken by our good friend Annette Price - who also took all the photos in our visits brochure (downloadable from the Teachers’ Page/’Our flagship programme’). To contact Annette, to whom we owe special thanks, go to http://www.wild-water-pictures.co.uk/
• Quotes on the Aztecs: the maize graphic, based on a glyph in the Codex Borbonicus, was created for us by John D. Starling - many thanks, John!
• Frida Kahlo: the top two photos were taken by Ian Mursell; the small images were all scanned from our personal copy of the exhibition catalogue ‘Frida Kahlo’, edited by Emma Dexter and Tanya Barson, Tate Publishing 2005
• Mexican Stamps: the codex image is from the Codex Laud (orignal in the Bodleian Library, Oxford)
• Aztec Music Lecture: the musician image is from the Codex Selden (original in the Bodleian Library, Oxford).

Teachers’ Page area

• The original b/w glyph of an Aztec teacher is from ‘Huehuehtlahtolli: Testimonios de la Antigua Palabra’ by Miguel León-Portilla and Librado Silva Galeana, published in 1991 by the Secretaría de Educación Pública, Mexico City
• Items for hire: both photos of our artefacts boxes were taken by Chris Tims
• More about us: photo of the Aztec teponaztli by Ian Mursell/Mexicolore, photo of the two owls by (and with thanks to) Jim Wegryn.

Aztec Life area

• We haven't provided full publication details of the books cited: if you want these, please ask
• All images from the codices have been scanned directly from the private collection of facsimiles owned by Mexicolore. We are in the process of contacting the museums and libraries that hold the original manuscripts to agree permissions and credit details. We will be adding references to individual codices in due course, but at this point it's worth simply acknowledging the fact that most facsimiles have come from the excellent Austrian publishing house ADEVA, to whom we owe special thanks. For decades they have been the leading source of facsimiles of ancient manuscripts. Go to their website (link below)

Aztec Life area: 'Tiger Top!'

• Main picture: colour illustration commissioned for Mexicolore by Felipe Dávalos
• Pic 1 from Codex Bodley, p19, Facsimile edition edited by Alfonso Caso, Sociedad Mexicana de Antropología, Mexico, 1960 (original in Bodleian Library, Oxford)
• Pic 2 by Ian Mursell/Mexicolore
• Pics 3 & 4 from Codex Laud, facsimile edition, ADEVA, Graz, Austria, 1966 (original in Bodleian Library, Oxford)
• Pic 5 from the Codex Magliabecchiano, facsimile edition, ADEVA, Graz, Austria, 1970
• Pic 6 by Annette Price

Aztefacts area

• The illustration in the ‘Aztec lifecheck’ is taken from ‘Huehuehtlahtolli’ (details above)
• The photo of whipping chocolate - in ‘(Cold) xocóatl’ - is from a postcard produced by Ediciones Tuluk in Mexico City - photo by David Maawad.

Aztec Stories area

• The photo at the top of Popocatépetl from the air was taken by Ian Mursell
• The painting of the two volcanoes is by Jesús Helguera and is from a calendar titled 'La Leyenda de los Volcanes', which we bought at a newsagents called 'La Chulita' in Mexico City
• The photo of Iztaccíhuatl (follow link) was taken by Ian Mursell
• The drawing of the dead woman is by Teresa Castelló Yturbide, one of a beautiful set called 'El Traje Indígena en México' published by the Secretaría de Educación Pública (SEP) and the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH) in Mexico in 1965
• The text and drawings of the legend of the creation of the moon are from the paperback by Ben Traven 'The Creation of the Sun and the Moon' (illustrations by Alberto Beltrán), published in 1977 by Lawrence Hill & Co./ Creative Arts Book Co., Westport, Berkeley (ISBN no. 0-88208-087-3) (first published in 1968). So far we have been unable to contact the publishers.

Henry Moore

• Colour illustration of chac mool figure by Phillip Mursell, © 2006
• The two photographs of Henry Moore and his reclining figure sculptures are © The Henry Moore Foundation Archive
• Photo of the chac mool figre at the Templo Mayor by Ian Mursell, photo of the chac mool at Chichen Itzá by Sean Sprague/Mexicolore

Mexican Masks page

• With thanks to the following photogaphers for allowing us to reproduce their images of Mexican masks and head sculptures: Sean Sprague, Ian Pearson, Ian Mursell, Maricela González, Xavier Miró, Ernesto Zavala
• Photographs 41 and 42 by Donald Cordry from MEXICAN MASKS by Donald Cordry, ©1980. Courtesy of the University of Texas Press
• Photographs 43 to 51 courtesy of The Royal Pavilion, Libraries & Museums Collections, Brighton & Hove

Picture sources for Chicle feature

• Main - http://www.breadcomestolife.com/pics/5d-Chewing-gum.jpg
• Pic 1 - Ian Mursell Permission obtained
• Pic 2 - Mary Louise Alley-Crosby Permission obtained
• Pic 3 www.wm-arts.com/ Information/process_one.htm
• Pic 4 www.tikalpark.com/ trees.htm
• Pic 5 Mary Louise Alley-Crosby Permission obtained
• Pic 6 Dr. Oscar Forero Permission obtained
• Pic 7 Dr. Oscar Forero Permission obtained
• Pic 8 Joe Mahoney, Professor, University of Washington Permission obtained
• Pic 9 ‘The gathering of bitumen’, Florentine Codex, Book 10, Chapter 24, scanned from our own copy of the Club Internacional del Libro 3-volume facsimile edition, Madrid, 1994
• Pic 10 scanned from accompanying booklet to Club Internacional del Libro facsimile edition of Florentine Codex, Madrid, 1994
• Pic 11 ‘The chicle chewer’, Florentine Codex, Book 10, Chapter 24, scanned from our own copy of the Club Internacional del Libro 3-volume facsimile edition, Madrid, 1994
• Pic 12 ‘Axin as medicine’, Florentine Codex, Book 10, Chapter 24, scanned from our own copy of the Club Internacional del Libro 3-volume facsimile edition, Madrid, 1994
• Pic 13 ‘The harlot’, Florentine Codex, Book 10, Chapter 15, scanned from our own copy of the Club Internacional del Libro 3-volume facsimile edition, Madrid, 1994
• Pic 14 ‘The harlot’, Florentine Codex, Book 10, Chapter 15, scanned from our own copy of the Club Internacional del Libro 3-volume facsimile edition, Madrid, 1994
• Pic 15 www.candyusa.org/ Candy/gum.asp
• Pic 16 www.uh.edu/ engines/epi963.htm Consulted John H. Lienhard - from The 1923 Wonder Book of Knowledge
• Pic 17 Dr. Oscar Forero Permission obtained
• Pic 18 www.mexicanamericans.com/ SantaAnna.htm
• Pic 19 http://www.sonicmattc.co.uk/mattinmexico/Museum.htm
• Pic 20 from “Latin America in Caricature” by John J. Johnson, University of Texas Press, Austin, 1980, p.55 (original appeared in Minneapolis Journal, 1912)
• Pic 21 http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ny/montgomery/postcards/ppcs-mont.html
• Pic 22 (Book cover)
• Pic 23 Dr. Oscar Forero Permission obtained
• Pic 24 Dr. Oscar Forero Permission obtained
• Pic 25 Dr. Oscar Forero Permission obtained
• Pic 26 Dr. Oscar Forero Permission obtained
• Pic 27 Dr. Oscar Forero Permission obtained
• Pic 28 Dr. Oscar Forero Permission obtained
• Pic 29 Dr. Oscar Forero Permission obtained
• Pic 30 Dr. Oscar Forero Permission obtained
• Pic 31 Dr. Oscar Forero Permission obtained
• Pic 32 Dr. Oscar Forero Permission obtained
• Pic 33 http://www.dina4.de/fairtrade/englisch/aktueu6.html
• Pic 34 http://www.fertin.com/index.php?id=77
• Pic 35 Mary Louise Alley-Crosby Permission obtained
• Pic 36 Dr. Oscar Forero Permission obtained
• Pic 37 (Book cover)

Picture sources for Teponaztli feature

• Pic 1 Florentine Codex, vol. 2, p. 280 (original in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence); scanned from our own copy of the Club Internacional del Libro 3-volume facsimile edition, Madrid, 1994
• Pic 2 Florentine Codex, vol. 1, p. 263 (original in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence); scanned from our own copy of the Club Internacional del Libro 3-volume facsimile edition, Madrid, 1994
• Pic 3 Codex Becker I, Pl. 8-9; scanned with permission from our own copy of the ADEVA facsimile edition, Graz, Austria, 1961
• Pic 4 Codex Mendoza, fol. 63r (original in the Bodleian Library, Oxford); reproduction permission requested
• Pic 5 Drawing ‘Mixtec wood-carving on a teponaztli’ by Miguel Covarrubias, scanned from his book ‘Indian Art of Mexico and Central America’ (New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1957), p. 308
• Pic 6 Courtesy of the Werner Forman Archive
• Pic 7 Codex Borbonicus, fol. 27 (original in the Bibliotheque de l’Assembée Nationale, Paris); scanned with permission from our own copy of the ADEVA facsimile edition, Graz, Austria, 1974
• Pic 8 Cantares Mexicanos, fol. 26v; scanned from ‘Cantares Mexicanos: Songs of the Aztecs’ trans. by John Bierhorst, Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, 1985, p. 10
• Pic 9 Codex Selden, fol. 7 (original in the Bodleian Library, Oxford); reproduction permission requested
• Pic 10 Tovar Manuscript Pl. XVIII (original in the John Carter Brown Library, Rhode Island, USA); scanned from the ADEVA, Graz, Austria 1972 edition, p. 273. Reproduction permission granted courtesy of The John Carter Brown Library at Brown University
• Pic 11 Florentine Codex, vol. 2, p.291 (original in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence); scanned from our own copy of the Club Internacional del Libro 3-volume facsimile edition, Madrid, 1994
• Pic 12 Drawing of a stone teponaztli (based on an original in the Codex Magliabecchiano fol. 23) by Miguel Covarrubias, scanned from Alfonso Caso’s book ‘The Aztecs: People of the Sun’ (Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1958), p. 48
• Pic 13 Original b/w photo taken by Rodney Gallop in Xico - kindly lent by Nigel Gallop
• Pic 14 Original b/w photo taken by Rodney Gallop in Tepoztlan - kindly lent by Nigel Gallop
• Pic 15 Original b/w photo taken by Rodney Gallop in Tepoztlan - kindly lent by Nigel Gallop
• Pic 16 Photo by Ian Mursell, Mexicolore
• Pic 17 Copyright American Museum of Natural History, New York; reproduction permission requested
• Pic 18 Photo by Ian Mursell, Mexicolore
• Pic 19 Photo by Ian Mursell, Mexicolore

Aztec Calendar date

• Our automated Gregorian/Aztec date reminder was designed and prepared by William Morris, who is an expert on calendrical systems and runs moonwise.co.uk (see link below)

Places to Visit

• Brighton Museum: The first two photos on the page were taken by Ian Mursell. The photos of the obsidian head, the armadillo basket and the b/w photo of the interior of Brighton Aquarium are all courtesy of Royal Pavilion, Libraries and Museums, Brighton & Hove, with thanks to Kevin Bacon, Documentation & Digitisation Officer, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery
• Haslemere Educational Museum: The image of the Tizoc Stone copy (top) was provided by the Museum; all the other 'live' pictures were taken by Ian Mursell and Graciela Sánchez; the 1824 London Exhibition illustration is courtesy of the Guildhall Library, Corporation of London; the image from the Florentine Codex was scanned from our own copy of the Club Internacional del Libro 3-volume facsimile edition, Madrid, 1994; the image from the Vindobonensis Codex was scanned with permission from our own copy of the ADEVA facsimile edition, Graz, Austria, 1974

Colossal serpent feature

• Main picture and Pics 2, 3, 5 and 6 by Ian Mursell/Mexicolore
• Pic 1 from Artes e Historia México, an independent cultural publication
• Pic 4 by Jorge Pérez de Lara
• Pic 7 by Armando Salas Portugal, published in 'La Ciudad de México' by Fernando Benitez, SALVAT, Mexico City 1982, Vol 3, p.336
• Quote by Elena Poniatowska from the Foreword to 'Mexico City' by Nick Caistor, Signal Books, Oxford, 2000, p.vii

Aztec Music area: Occasionally even experts make mistakes!

• Main picture and Pic 2: Florentine Codex, vol. 1, p.181 & p. 180 (original in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence); scanned from our own copy of the Club Internacional del Libro 3-volume facsimile edition, Madrid, 1994
• Pic 1 from 'Instrumentos Musicales Precortesianos by Samuel Martí, INAH/SEP, Mexico 1968, p. 70
• Pic 3 Drawing of Quetzalcóatl (based on an original in the Codex Borbonicus fol. 22) by Miguel Covarrubias, scanned from Alfonso Caso’s book ‘The Aztecs: People of the Sun’ (Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1958), p. 19
• Pic 4 by Ian Mursell/Mexicolore

'Tooth place'

• Main picture: scanned from Atlas Cultural de México: Lingüística (ed. Leonardo Manrique Castañeda), SEP/INAH, Mexico, 1988, p.114
• Pic 1 by Ian Mursell/Mexicolore
• Pic 2: scanned from Aztec Art by Esther Pasztory, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1983, p.267
• Pic 3: original drawing by Deborah Tyler/Mexicolore
• Pic 4: scanned from our own copy of the James Cooper Clark 1938 (London) facsimile edition of the Codex Mendoza [original in the Bodleian Library, Oxford], folio 13v (vol.III)
• Pic 5: scanned from our own copy of the Frances F. Berdan & Patricia Rieff Anawalt 1992 University of California Press facsimile edition of the Codex Mendoza [original in the Bodleian Library, Oxford], folio 39r (vol.III)
• Pics 6-20: scanned from our own copy of the Frances F. Berdan & Patricia Rieff Anawalt 1992 University of California Press facsimile edition of the Codex Mendoza [original in the Bodleian Library, Oxford], from vol.I ('Interpretation, Appendices'), Appendix E, pp.167-232, passim.

D H Lawrence and 'The Plumed Serpent'

• Pic 1: from the internet (www.losartistas.com/ losartistas/ajijic.html)
• Pics 2, 3, 4 & 5: courtesy of Manuscripts and Special Collections, University of Nottingham
• Pics 6 & 7: by Xavier Miró/Mexicolore
• Pics 8 & 9: by Ian Mursell/Mexicolore
• Pics 10 & 11: courtesy of Professor Karl Taube
• Pic 12: scanned from Codex Borbonicus, fol. 14 (original in the Bibliotheque de l’Assembée Nationale, Paris); scanned with permission from our own copy of the ADEVA facsimile edition, Graz, Austria, 1974
• Pic 13: scanned from the Codex Telleriano-Remensis, edited by Eloise Quiñones Keber, facsimile edition, University of Texas Press, 1995, fol. 18v
• Pics 14 & 15: courtesy of Nadine Schmidt

Pole-climbing feature

• Main picture: from The Guardian Newspaper (UK) 18 August 2006; photo by Crack Palinggi/Reuters
• Pictures from Thailand by Richard Barrow (richard@thai-blogs.com)
• 'Dance of the Xocotlhuetzi' illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias, from 'The Aztecs: People of the Sun' by Alfonso Caso (University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1958) p.71
• Glyphs of XOCOYOHCAN and Xocotlhuetzi from online Dictionnaire de la langue nahuatl classique (http://sites.estvideo.net/malinal/1.hist/X.html)

Mexican Bank Notes (Xochipilli feature)

• Main picture and pics 1 & 2: scans by Ian Mursell
• Pic 4: scanned from our own copy of the ADEVA facsimile edition of the Codex Borgia, 1976
• Pic 5 illustration created for Mexicolore by Felipe Dávalos
• Pic 6: scanned from 'Pre-Hispanic Cooking' by Ana M. de Benítez, Ediciones Euroamericanas, Mexico City, 1974, p.43
• Pic 7: photo by Ian Mursell

Vanilla feature

• Main picture: Florentine Codex, Book 11, scanned from our own copy of the Club Internacional del Libro 3-volume facsimile edition, Madrid, 1994
• Pic 1: from the internet - http://redescolar.ilce.edu.mx/redescolar/publicaciones/publi_biosfera/flora/vainilla/galeria.htm
• Pics 2 & 3: scanned from our own copy of The Badianus Manuscript: An Aztec Herbal of 1552, The John Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1940, plates 70 & 104
• Pic 4: from the internet - http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2002/09/04/tradicion.html
• Pic 5: from the internet - http://www.savoryspiceshop.com/spices/vanilmad.html