. Bulletin. Ethnology. fi08 BUREAU OF AMERU*AN ETHNOLOGY [bui-l. 28 feathers hang down over them, a^ figure 121 (Dresden codex, page 27), and h, somewhat diiTerent (page 25). The upper part of this figure is naked, save for the eUiborate neck ornament. Plate XLV, number 5, the figure of a priest in the Yucatan collec- tion (compare the description of this figure by Doctor IThle in the Verotfentlichungen aus dem Kaiserlichen Museum fiir Volkerkunde, October, 188S, pages 15 and 16) aifords a suitable object for compari- son w4th the above-mentioned example of sacerdotal dress, the only one in th
. Bulletin. Ethnology. fi08 BUREAU OF AMERU*AN ETHNOLOGY [bui-l. 28 feathers hang down over them, a^ figure 121 (Dresden codex, page 27), and h, somewhat diiTerent (page 25). The upper part of this figure is naked, save for the eUiborate neck ornament. Plate XLV, number 5, the figure of a priest in the Yucatan collec- tion (compare the description of this figure by Doctor IThle in the Verotfentlichungen aus dem Kaiserlichen Museum fiir Volkerkunde, October, 188S, pages 15 and 16) aifords a suitable object for compari- son w4th the above-mentioned example of sacerdotal dress, the only one in the manuscripts. Instead of the cotton strips we have here an obvious stiff belt, as in the codices, below it an apron, which is open in front, just as in the manuscripts, / and //, figure 120. The pendent strips of cotton are missing, however. In the place of them we see the legs clad in a kind of feather-work breeches, nothing. 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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