. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. c (1 Fig. 78. Symbols and figures of Quetzalcoatl, from Mexican codices. like feather ornament, standing out stiffly from the nape of theneck, which in the Aztec Sahagun text is once called cuezaluitoncatl, fanlike ornament of red guacamayo feathers , and another timequetzal-coxol-tlamamalli, dorsal ornament of quetzal and partridgefeathers , is in our paintings always drawn like the pictures in theBorgian codex, Codex Vaticanus B, the Vienna codex, and the MixtecColombino codex (Dorenberg codex) ; that is, it consists
. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. c (1 Fig. 78. Symbols and figures of Quetzalcoatl, from Mexican codices. like feather ornament, standing out stiffly from the nape of theneck, which in the Aztec Sahagun text is once called cuezaluitoncatl, fanlike ornament of red guacamayo feathers , and another timequetzal-coxol-tlamamalli, dorsal ornament of quetzal and partridgefeathers , is in our paintings always drawn like the pictures in theBorgian codex, Codex Vaticanus B, the Vienna codex, and the MixtecColombino codex (Dorenberg codex) ; that is, it consists of elongated,radiating feathers (in the picture writings painted entirely red orred with blue points), which are probably intended to represent thetail feathers of the red guacamayo ( macaw ), and objects betweenthese which are either actual representations of eyes (see a, figure 78,from the Mixtec Colombino, or Dorenberg, codex) or surfaces orna-mented with eyes more or less clearly expressed (see fr, from the 318 BUKEAU OF AMEKICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 28 coatl and lies a
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