Produced by Julia Miller and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) INDIAN NOTES AND MONOGRAPHS EDITED BY F. W. HODGE VOL. IX [Illustration: Logo] No. 3 A SERIES OF PUBLICATIONS RELATING TO THE AMERICAN ABORIGINES REPORTS ON THE MAYA INDIANS OF YUCATAN BY SANTIAGO MENDEZ, ANTONIO GARCÍA Y CUBAS, PEDRO SANCHEZ DE AGUILAR, AND FRANCISCO HERNANDEZ EDITED BY MARSHALL H. SAVILLE NEW YORK MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN HEYE FOUNDATION 1921 This series of INDIAN NOTES AND MONOGRAPHS is devoted primarily to the publication of the results of studies by members of the staff of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, and is uniform with HISPANIC NOTES AND MONOGRAPHS, published by the Hispanic Society of America, with which organization this Museum is in cordial coöperation. Only the first ten volumes of INDIAN NOTES AND MONOGRAPHS are numbered. The unnumbered parts may readily be determined by consulting the List of Publications issued as one of the series. REPORTS ON THE MAYA INDIANS OF YUCATAN BY SANTIAGO MENDEZ ANTONIO GARCÍA Y CUBAS, PEDRO SANCHEZ DE AGUILAR AND FRANCISCO HERNANDEZ EDITED BY MARSHALL H. SAVILLE CONTENTS PAGE Preface 139 THE MAYA INDIANS OF YUCATAN IN 1861, by Santiago Mendez 143 Customs 143 Women 177 Dress 190 Language 192 Stature, Physiognomy, Color 192 Savage Tribes 194 Note by Antonio García y Cubas 196 NOTES ON THE SUPERSTITIONS OF THE INDIANS OF YUCATAN (1639), by Pedro Sanchez de Aguilar 202 OF THE RELIGIOUS BELIEFS OF THE INDIANS OF YUCATAN IN 1545. Report of Francisco Hernandez 209 Glossary 216 Bibliography 221 Notes 223 PREFACE