Field Notebook: Mexico 1906
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Mexico City Aug. 30 Thursday Got up tired and felt bad all day. My head is stiff and occasionally my heart flutters a little. Spent the morning at the National Museum and looked over the Archaeological material. The great statues and idol masks seem to have been the Mixtecs people. The ancient gold ornaments in this museum is almost nil in fact we have from Panama at least three times as much as is here shown. While the Archaeological collections are good yet one expects a first deal more than is here shown. One wonders what became of are the carved stones in the temples or much of what it was thrown by Cortez into the lake. Some has gone into the churches but from the very fact that some of the best things are now turning up in the street diggings shows that much more will be un-covered when more daggings are made about the Plaza de la Constitucion. Late in the afternoon rode in the cars towards Tacubaya and on the return stopped at the Chapel Petre restaurant. While here heard a good lot of Mexican music and viewed the fashionable