. Contributions to North American ethnology. Vol. I-VII, IX. Indians of North America; Ethnology. 154 A STUDY OF THE TROANO. wash.^ The hand here figured I take to be simply a pictorial repre- sentation. The characters in the right-hand compartment of the middle division of the same plate, I think probably relate to the offerings of honey and tortillas for the AotaSng Co^X The character represented in Fig. 84, found so frequently on Plates P to X* and elsewhere, may denote pieces of honey-comb, or a kind of drink made of honey, as Brasseur says (note in Landa's Relacion), &q
. Contributions to North American ethnology. Vol. I-VII, IX. Indians of North America; Ethnology. 154 A STUDY OF THE TROANO. wash.^ The hand here figured I take to be simply a pictorial repre- sentation. The characters in the right-hand compartment of the middle division of the same plate, I think probably relate to the offerings of honey and tortillas for the AotaSng Co^X The character represented in Fig. 84, found so frequently on Plates P to X* and elsewhere, may denote pieces of honey-comb, or a kind of drink made of honey, as Brasseur says (note in Landa's Relacion), " honey that has passed into the state of hydromel, which was their ordinary ; ' I follow, ill most 'S, tlie interpretation fjiven by liniHSeiir in his Maya lexicon, and make no attempt to give ol(Ii(|Ue forms, as niy knowledge of the Maya language i^s too limited for 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 Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902; Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region (U. S. ); Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : Govt. Print. Off.
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