Animal Figures in the Maya CodicesTozzer, Alfred M. (Alfred Marston)
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Animal Figures in the Maya Codices
Tozzer, Alfred M. (Alfred Marston)
Mayan languages -- Writing; Mayas -- Antiquities
1. Dog and crab, Tro-Cortesianus 88c.
2. Tro-Cortesianus 37b.
3. Tro-Cortesianus 66b.
4. Head, Nuttall 34.
5. Nuttall 72.
6. Head, Nuttall 20.
7. Probably a dog, Nuttall 3.
8. Aubin 9.
9. Glyph for day sign _Oc_.
10. Same.
11. Same.
12. Tro-Cortesianus 91d.
13. Glyph for Nahua day sign _Itzcuintli_, Aubin 9.
14. Tro-Cortesianus 27d.
[Illustration: PLATE 36]
PLATE 37
MAMMALIA
DOG (_Canis_)
1. Dog bearing firebrands, Dresden 40b.
2. Same, Dresden 39a.
3. Same, Dresden 36a.
4. Tro-Cortesianus 88a.
5. Dresden 21b.
6. Tro-Cortesianus 24c.
7. Dresden 13c.
8. Tro-Cortesianus 37a.
9. Dresden 30a.
10. Dresden 7a.
11. Glyph supposed to represent a dog's ribs, Dresden 13c.
12. Dresden 29a.
13. Head, Tro-Cortesianus 91d.
[Illustration: PLATE 37]
PLATE 38
MAMMALIA
LEAF-NOSED BAT (_Vampyrus spectrum_ or _Phyllostomus hastatus
panamensis_)
1. Glyph, Chichen Itza, Akat 'Cib (Maudslay, III, Pl. 19.)[TN-33]
2. Glyph, Copan (Maudslay, I, Pl. 8).
3. Bat god, drawn as glyph, Copan, Stela D (Maudslay, I, Pl. 48).
4. Glyph, Copan (Maudslay, I, Pl. 8).
5. Glyph, Palenque, Temple of the Inscriptions (Maudslay, IV, Pl. 60,
gl. Q 1).
6. Glyph, Tikal (Maudslay III, Pl. 74, gl. 41).
7. Bat gad used as decoration on pottery, Chama (Dieseldorff, 1904).
[Illustration: PLATE 38]
PLATE 39
MAMMALIA
MONKEY AND MISCELLANEOUS
1. Capuchin monkey (_Cebus capucinus_), Nuttall 1.
2. Same, Nuttall 5.
3. Head of same, Nuttall 38.
4. Nondescript animal, possibly a combination of monkey and peccary,
Tro-Cortesianus 88c.
5. Glyph, possibly representing a monkey, found in connection with
fig. 4.
6. Glyph of head of monkey, Nuttall 1.
7. Head of long-nosed god, Tro-Cortesianus 30a.
8. Head of monkey, glyph for Nahua day sign, _Oçomatli_, Aubin 9.
9. Long-nosed god, Tro-Cortesianus 30b.
10. God with head-dress, Dresden 5c.
[Illustration: PLATE 39]
Transcriber's Note:
The following typographical errors were noted in the original text:
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