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Identifier: mexicancentralam28bowd (find matches)
Title: Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Bowditch, Charles P(ickering), 1842- (from old catalog) ed Seler, Eduard, 1849-1922 Förstemann, Ernst Wilhelm, 1822-1906 Schellhas, Paul, 1859- (from old catalog) Sapper, Karl Theodor, 1866- (from old catalog) Dieseldorff, Erwin P. (from old catalog) Wesselhoeft, Selma, (from old catalog) tr Parker, Alberta M., (from old catalog) tr Jay I. Kislak Reference Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Maya calendar Calendar
Publisher: Washington, Gov't print. off.
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cords. Then follows a mat, and, lastly,two square objects which may represent boards or perhaps somewoven fabric. , In the top row of the upper division we have first, on the right, twobundles of zacate; then, two loads of wood. Here the loadis drawnin the same way as in the lower division; that is, the bundle of woodin place of the scale pan hangs from the three cords. Plate 30 of the Goupil-Boban atlas, which gave us the key tothe meaning of the figures selected to denote loads on fragment XIV(plate xix) of our collection, belongs to a manuscript which is fur-nished with text and is a bill of complaint issued against CaptainJorge Ceron y Carabajal, alcalde mayor of the town of Chalco,brought before the Real Audiencia of Mexico in the year 1564. It isnot improbable that our fragment came from the same locality, andperhaps it belongs to the same period. a Gama, Dos Piedras, edid. Bustamente. Mexico, 1832, p. 137. ft ft I & <$ MEXICAN PAINTING-HU
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& <@ <% * + + V *9<&*&. 9 *9 - : ,.-- if ^ 1? f ^ ^ * rf. + <& & I v ^ ^ -? ^ ^ ^ ^ MEXICAN PAINTING-HUMBOLDT FRAGMENT XV seler) MEXICAN PICTURE WRITINGS FRAGMENTS XV, XVI 221 FRAGMENT XV This (plate xx) is a strip of agave paper 34 cm. long and 52 cm.wide, which resembles the fragments X to XII (plates xv, xvi, andxvn). The drawing of the figures also exhibits an unmistakableresemblance to those fragments. This fragment also belongs among those of our collection whichcan with tolerable certainty be identified with some of those describedby Boturini. It is mentioned in the Catalogo del Museo Indiano insection21,under number 10: Otro (mapa) del mismo (papel Indiano),y pinta gran Numero de pavos, que se pagavan de Tributo. No sesabe de que pueblo ( another (map) on the same paper (Indianpaper), which depicts a great number of turkeys, which were paid astribute, it is not known from what town ). Besides the personages on the right, th

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