Produced by PM for Bureau of American Ethnology, Julia Miller, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr) Transcriber's Note This paper is an extract from the following publication: Powell, J. W. 1897 _Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology._ pp. 199-266. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. The index was extracted from the complete volume index. Inconsistencies in hyphenation and spelling have been maintained, along with two typographical errors. The typographical errors are marked with [TN-#] in the text. A complete list of inconsistencies and errors is found at the end of this paper. The original publication used two less-common characters: ɔ (open o) and ħ (h with stroke). If these characters do not display correctly, please try changing your font or using the Latin-1 text version of this paper. DAY SYMBOLS OF THE MAYA YEAR BY CYRUS THOMAS CONTENTS Page Introductory 205 The first day 207 The second day 215 The third day 221 The fourth day 226 The fifth day 229 The sixth day 231 The seventh day 232 The eighth day 235 The ninth day 237 The tenth day 239 The eleventh day 241 The twelfth day 243 The thirteenth day 245 The fourteenth day 248 The fifteenth day 250 The sixteenth day 252 The seventeenth day 254 The eighteenth day 258 The nineteenth day 259 The twentieth day 262 Appendix--A list of the deities of the days of the month in the Maori calendar 265 ILLUSTRATIONS