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Show ' Mexico1,. Pans. In Mexico fans were used long before be-fore tho conquest, and when Monto-zuma Monto-zuma heard that the Spaniards had landed and wero about to visit him he Snt for goldsmiths and lapidaries and ordered, among other gifts which were to bo offered to Cortes, two feather fans ornamented with a sun and inooa of highly polished gold. Like the Japa-nose Japa-nose nnd otlicr ancient natlous, the Aztecs evidently considered the" fan au emblem of authority, for thoy generally general-ly placed It la tho bauds of Ometeuctl) god of paradise, nnd of Totec, the mill! tary dlsclplo of Quctzalcohuntl. |