Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . 604 BUREAtJ OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 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 inthe Veroffentlichungen des Koniglichen Museum fiir Volkerkunde,October, 1888, plate x, wears distinctly executed sandals, of the formgiven in «, figure 118. We also find in the same collection a certainnumber of large clay feet with sandals, 6, strongly resembling thosegiven above taken from the Dresden manuscript. These feet do notseem to
Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . 604 BUREAtJ OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 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 inthe Veroffentlichungen des Koniglichen Museum fiir Volkerkunde,October, 1888, plate x, wears distinctly executed sandals, of the formgiven in «, figure 118. We also find in the same collection a certainnumber of large clay feet with sandals, 6, strongly resembling thosegiven above taken from the Dresden manuscript. These feet do notseem to have been broken off larger figures, but to have an independ-ent purpose, one of religious symbolism. This view is confirmed bythe circumstance that similar feet are given in the Troano codex,page 21, in a sacrificial scene, ^ f iJ Fig. 118. Representations of sandals and leg ornaments. The form and manner of fastening these various foot coverings iseasily recognized from the illustrations (see a similar modern exam-ple that follows the ancient models in Guatemala in Stoll, Ethnol-ogic der Indianer von Guatemala, 1889, supplement to InternationalesArchiv fiir Ethnographic, plate i, figure 15). This one subject ofcomparison shows how strikingly the remains differ one from theother. DRESS AND ORNAMENTATION OF THE LEG While foot wear is so rare in the Maya manuscripts, a peculiararticle of dress or ornament for the lower part of the leg is all themore common, but only for males, hoAvever, as the women do notwear it. This object is to be seen on almost every figure in all theMaya manuscripts, and may be regarded as distinctly characteristicof these representations (another proof of the common origin of the BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY BULLETIN 28 PLATE XLV
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