Produced by Julia Miller and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's Note A number of typographical errors and inconsistencies have been maintained in this version of this book. They have been marked with a [TN-#], which refers to a description in the complete list found at the end of the text. The following less-common characters are used in this version of the book. If they do not display properly, please try changing your font. ă a with breve ɔ open o ħ h with stroke š s with caron ṭ t with dot under † Dagger ‡ Double dagger The following codes are used for characters that are not able to be represented in the text format used for this version of the book. [ɔ.] open o with dot under [p.] p with dot under [^q] q with circumflex [ts.] ts with dot under PAPERS OF THE PEABODY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY, HARVARD UNIVERSITY VOL. IV.--No. 3. ANIMAL FIGURES IN THE MAYA CODICES BY ALFRED M. TOZZER, PH.D. AND GLOVER M. ALLEN, PH.D. CAMBRIDGE, MASS. PUBLISHED BY THE MUSEUM FEBRUARY, 1910 Salem Press: THE SALEM PRESS CO., SALEM MASS. 1910. NOTE It has been thought desirable, for the advancement of the study of Maya hieroglyphs, that the interpretation of the conventionalized animal figures, which so frequently occur in the Maya codices, should be undertaken. The Peabody Museum Committee on Central American Research therefore requested Dr. A. M. Tozzer to prepare a paper on the subject, and to secure the valuable cooperation of Dr. Glover M. Allen, a zoologist familiar with the animals of Mexico and Central America, to aid in the identification of the various species of animals which under varying forms are used in connection with the glyphs. While it is possible that some of the determinations given in this paper may require further confirmation, it is evident that the combined studies of Dr. Tozzer and Dr. Allen cannot fail to be useful to students of the Maya hieroglyphic writing. F. W. PUTNAM. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, August, 1909. KEY TO THE PRONUNCIATION OF MAYA WORDS The vowels and consonants have their continental sounds with the following exceptions:-- =ă= like _u_ in hut =ai= like _i_ in island =k= (Beltran's _c_) ordinary palatal _k_ =q= (Beltran's _k_) velar _k_ =[ɔ.]= (Beltran's _ɔ_) _ts_ explosive or fortis =ɔ= (Beltran's _tz_) _ts_ non-explosive =š= (Beltran's _x_) like _sh_ in hush =tš= (Beltran's _ch_) like _ch_ in church =[ts.]= (Beltran's _cħ_) _ch_ explosive =[p.]= (Beltran's _pp_) _p_ explosive =t= (Beltran's _tħ_) _t_ explosive LIST OF PLATES