Montezuma sent Cortés feathered headdresses and traditional regalia, including jade and obsidian, which represented great regard in Aztec culture.

“temples and to them this this both awed them and inflamed that that greed that they had and Cortez himself admitted as much to Montezuma's own voice he said my men and I suffer from a disease of the heart that only gold can cure so Montezuma sent him feathered headdresses and all the”

“and all the traditional regalia he sent him jade and obsidian which in the Aztec world would have been symbols of great regard and Cortez was happy to put on the headdress and he sent it back to the king but the little trinkets of gold that he was”