Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . take the character which lookslike a key actually to be one, and consider it as an expression of theword tlatlati, which means he who hides something, or shuts up orguards something (el que guarda alguna cosa, o el que esconde algo, 218 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 28 Molina), for in the Xaltepetla2:>an list of names of persons (Manii-scrit Mexicain number 3, Bibliotheque Nationale) I find mention ofa man named Juan Tlatlatin, who is described by the hieroglyphfigure 48; that is, by a hand holding up a key. Th
Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . take the character which lookslike a key actually to be one, and consider it as an expression of theword tlatlati, which means he who hides something, or shuts up orguards something (el que guarda alguna cosa, o el que esconde algo, 218 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 28 Molina), for in the Xaltepetla2:>an list of names of persons (Manii-scrit Mexicain number 3, Bibliotheque Nationale) I find mention ofa man named Juan Tlatlatin, who is described by the hieroglyphfigure 48; that is, by a hand holding up a key. The first personfrom the right seems to be hieroglyphically designated by two hornson his head. His name may therefore have been Quaquauh (see hand c, same figure), which in the list of names of persons (ManuscritMexicain number 3, Bibliotheque Nationale) denote persons of thatname. The second person seems to be hieroglyphically designatedby a stone (te-tl) and water (a-tl). The third person has no hiero-glyph, and I can not interpret the circular design in front of li i k m n Fu;. 4S. Symliols for certain persons and for numbers. Both divisions of the page treat of the same matter, the deliveryof articles for which payment is asked or nonpayment is complainedof; that is, it is an account or a bill of complaint. If we take for granted that Ave are to j^roceed from below upward,as in the other fragments, then the first representation below wouldbe ten turkey hens, followed by five cocks. Beside the cock at theleft end of the row, however, there is a small flag, the sign for , therefore, must mean 24 cocks. In the next row above, firston the right, there is a vessel and above that a figure, which I can notexplain, surrounded by featherlike rays, very much like those (seethe upper half of this fragment) which are drawn to denote the num-
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