. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. ace of is probably a female figure with parted hair falling down at thesides of the head, a lock of which, drawn forward from behind, hangsfar down over the shoulder. This long tapering lock of flowing hairin front is likewise a distinguishing characteristic of women in theDresden manuscript, and we see it, moreover, in the vase painting fromRio Hondo, which is reproduced below in <?, figure 26. The form c,figure 18, wears large square ornamental tablets in the ears. A clothis wound about the body immed
. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. ace of is probably a female figure with parted hair falling down at thesides of the head, a lock of which, drawn forward from behind, hangsfar down over the shoulder. This long tapering lock of flowing hairin front is likewise a distinguishing characteristic of women in theDresden manuscript, and we see it, moreover, in the vase painting fromRio Hondo, which is reproduced below in <?, figure 26. The form c,figure 18, wears large square ornamental tablets in the ears. A clothis wound about the body immediately below the breasts, and aroundthe neck she wears a cord on which is strung a large quadrangularprismatic stone bead with a round bead at each end. A head (b, figure19) which comes from San Juan Chamelco evidently belonged to a sim-ilar figure. Here, too, the hair is parted, but bound above the foreheadby a tupuy, headband. Two other modes of dressing the hair, 98 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 28 m if IT^^ifl x M J0 !|jjL X%£&^ % 9 *.- $mA PC r I -^-^^s^F.
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