TABLE X. CHARACTERISTICS OF HEAD-VARIANT NUMERALS 0 TO 19, INCLUSIVE
+-------------+---------------------------------------------------------+
| Forms | Characteristics |
+-------------+---------------------------------------------------------+
| Head for 0 | Clasped hand across lower part of face. |
| Head for 1 | Forehead ornament composed of _more than one part_. |
| Head for 2 | Oval in upper part of head. (?) |
| Head for 3 | Banded headdress or fillet. |
| Head for 4 | Bulging eye with square irid, snaglike front tooth, |
| | curling fang from back of mouth. |
| Head for 5 | Normal form of tun sign as headdress. |
| Head for 6 | "Hatchet eye." |
| Head for 7 | Large scroll passing under eye and curling up in |
| | front of forehead. |
| Head for 8 | Forehead ornament composed of _one part_. |
| Head for 9 | Dots on lower cheek or around mouth and in some |
| | cases beard. |
| Head for 10 | Fleshless lower jaw and in some cases other |
| | death's-head characteristics, truncated nose, etc. |
| Head for 11 | Undetermined. |
| Head for 12 | Undetermined; type of head known, however. |
| Head for 13 | (_a_) Long pendulous nose, bulging eye, and curling |
| | fang from back of mouth. |
| | (_b_) Head for 3 with fleshless lower jaw of head |
| | for 10. |
| Head for 14 | Head for 4 with fleshless lower jaw of head for 10. |
| Head for 15 | Head for 5 with fleshless lower jaw of head for 10. |
| Head for 16 | Head for 6 with fleshless lower jaw of head for 10. |
| Head for 17 | Head for 7 with fleshless lower jaw of head for 10. |
| Head for 18 | Head for 8 with fleshless lower jaw of head for 10. |
| Head for 19 | Head for 9 with fleshless lower jaw of head for 10. |
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Mention should be made here of a numerical form which can not be classified
either as a bar and dot numeral or a head variant. This is the thumb (),
which has a numerical value of one.
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