. Bulletin. Ethnology. seler] MEXICAN PICTURE WRITINGS FRAGMENT I 151 may, perhaps, be intended for a piece of obsidian (iztli). Accord- ing to this, we liave itz-te-cozca-tepe as elements of the hieroglyph; but 1 can not construct any place name known to me out of these elements. I will now pass on to columns d and e. In d we have in square 60 the mummy bundle and a hieroglyph which in the Kingsborough drawing is absolutely incompre- hensible, but which in the orig- inal, and also in our reproduc- tion, can be recognized, with some difficulty, to be sure, as the head of a beast of prey with o
. Bulletin. Ethnology. seler] MEXICAN PICTURE WRITINGS FRAGMENT I 151 may, perhaps, be intended for a piece of obsidian (iztli). Accord- ing to this, we liave itz-te-cozca-tepe as elements of the hieroglyph; but 1 can not construct any place name known to me out of these elements. I will now pass on to columns d and e. In d we have in square 60 the mummy bundle and a hieroglyph which in the Kingsborough drawing is absolutely incompre- hensible, but which in the orig- inal, and also in our reproduc- tion, can be recognized, with some difficulty, to be sure, as the head of a beast of prey with outstretched tongue. We should read this Ocelotl, " jaguar ". A seated figure then follows, in square 61, whose head is not adorned with the royal head- band,the xiuhuitzolli,and long hair hangs down behind, wound round with a strap, after the manner of priests. A cac- tus branch is behind it, by way of name hieroglyph. Cactus branches, with the blossoms, often occur in the register of names of persons of Uexotzinco and Xaltepetlapan (Manuscrit Mexicain number 8, Bibliothe- que Rationale, Paris), shown in figure 35 (a, 1 to 5). There they denote the name Nochuetl, wliich is also frequently mentioned in the Anales of Chimalpahin. A cactus branch in conjunction with an arroAv is li|vewise used there to represent the name Tziuac mitl, h. It seems, there- fore, that a variety of cactus was meant by Tziuactli, or tzinuactli. This name, too, which likewise occurs in the Anales of Chimalpa- hin, might be expressed by the hieroglyph in scpiare 61, colunni i) (plate vi). In the hieroglyph which accompanies the munnny bundle, in square 64, column d (plate vi), I think I recognize the head of a deer and an upright tuft of feathers. The deer is mazatl, and the upright tuft of feathers should probably be read quetzalli. According to this we. Fig. 35. Symbols of personal and place names in Mexican Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images
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