. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. . denotes 1800, that is-ix-iOO-l—^. The -^ or 200 is indicated hy the half leaf or spike at the right. Vatican codex, numher 3738 (Kingsborough, \ol. ii; explanation,vol. v)—On plate 7, figures 2 and 3, are the symbolsshown in our figure 38, interpreted 4-008 and sup-posed to refer to the years of the second age of theworld. Each one of the crossed and fringed circles(blue in the original) represents 400 and is an equiva-lent and perhaps a mere variation of the fringed spike-like leaf. The 8 is
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. . denotes 1800, that is-ix-iOO-l—^. The -^ or 200 is indicated hy the half leaf or spike at the right. Vatican codex, numher 3738 (Kingsborough, \ol. ii; explanation,vol. v)—On plate 7, figures 2 and 3, are the symbolsshown in our figure 38, interpreted 4-008 and sup-posed to refer to the years of the second age of theworld. Each one of the crossed and fringed circles(blue in the original) represents 400 and is an equiva-lent and perhaps a mere variation of the fringed spike-like leaf. The 8 is represented by the upper row of smaller circles (also blue). We add one more of this type from plate 10 (see our figure 39). This is interpreted 5042; this,however, is a mistake; the correct number according to the sym-bol is 5206 = 13x400+6. Attention is called to this mistake in anote to the English translation of the explanation in Kingsborough,vol. VI, but the correct number is notstated. We find on plate 123 the combi-nation shown in our figure no interpretation of thispage
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