. Bulletin. Ethnology. 114 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY forms in Maya It" it is true ot any specimen, we have in this vessel the artistic production of a nation foreign to the Maya soil. It is in all probability to be ascribed to the Pipils, the Nahua tribe, who undoubtedh^ lived here a long- time before the conquest. To begin with, the vessel of pure Maya type (c, figure 26), the person- ages represented on it are women. This is especially proved by the long wisps of hair down in front, which can be seen in quite similar fashion on the female forms in the Dresden
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 114 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY forms in Maya It" it is true ot any specimen, we have in this vessel the artistic production of a nation foreign to the Maya soil. It is in all probability to be ascribed to the Pipils, the Nahua tribe, who undoubtedh^ lived here a long- time before the conquest. To begin with, the vessel of pure Maya type (c, figure 26), the person- ages represented on it are women. This is especially proved by the long wisps of hair down in front, which can be seen in quite similar fashion on the female forms in the Dresden manuscript. The position of the arms and hands is a favorite one in the figures of gods in the Mexican picture writings, especially in the Borgian codex and Codex Vaticanus B, which, however, appears also in the Dresden manuscript, for example, in the Moan bird, on page 11^/. The raised or outstretched hand is evidently a gesture of speech or of command,. h r d Pig. 28. Design on Guatemalan vessel and figures from Mexican codices. which, in fact, and especially in this case, are the same thing, for tlahtouani, or tlauto, "the speaker", means the ruler, the prince. The clothing of the figures seems to consist of an enagua, a cloth wrapped about the hips like a petticoat and fastened about the middle of the body with a band. Those objects seem to be the ends of this band which are seen to rise above the enagua and fall down behind. The figures are represented sitting with crossed legs. Protruding from the enagua is the bare left thigh and below this the naked sole of the right foot, a typical position which is very often drawn in the Dresden man- uscript. But the lines in our picture are so displaced as to give the impression that the drawing is not from life. I)ut from a familiar picture I'epeated in a stereotyped way. The same impression is made in studying the hieroglyphs. I have. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been
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