. Bulletin. Ethnology. 604 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY fBULL. 28 sible to tell whether they are clad in sandals. Some of them, how- ever, are evidently bare. The fine, lifelike figure of a priest copied in the Veroffentlichungen des Koniglichen Museum fiir VcWkerkunde, October, 1888, plate x, wears distinctly executed sandals, of the form given in a, figure 118. We also find in the same collection a certain number of large clay feet with sandals, 5, strongly resembling those given above taken from the Dresden manuscript. These feet do not seem to have been l)roken off larger figures, but to h
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 604 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY fBULL. 28 sible to tell whether they are clad in sandals. Some of them, how- ever, are evidently bare. The fine, lifelike figure of a priest copied in the Veroffentlichungen des Koniglichen Museum fiir VcWkerkunde, October, 1888, plate x, wears distinctly executed sandals, of the form given in a, figure 118. We also find in the same collection a certain number of large clay feet with sandals, 5, strongly resembling those given above taken from the Dresden manuscript. These feet do not seem to have been l)roken off larger figures, but to have an independ- ent purpose, one of religious symbolism. This view is confirmed by the circumstance that similar feet are given in the Troano codex, page 21, in a sacrificial scene, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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