. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. ion,vol. v)—On plate 7, figures 2 and 3, are the symbolsshown in our figure 38, interpreted 4-008 and sup-posed to refer to the years of the second age of theworld. Each one of the crossed and fringed circles(blue in the original) represents 400 and is an equiva-lent and perhaps a mere variation of the fringed spike-like leaf. The 8 is represented by the upper row of smaller circles (also blue). We add one more of this type from plate 10 (see our figure 39). This is interpreted 5042; this,howev
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. ion,vol. v)—On plate 7, figures 2 and 3, are the symbolsshown in our figure 38, interpreted 4-008 and sup-posed to refer to the years of the second age of theworld. Each one of the crossed and fringed circles(blue in the original) represents 400 and is an equiva-lent and perhaps a mere variation of the fringed spike-like leaf. The 8 is represented by the upper row of smaller circles (also blue). We add one more of this type from plate 10 (see our figure 39). This is interpreted 5042; this,however, is a mistake; the correct number according to the sym-bol is 5206 = 13x400+6. Attention is called to this mistake in anote to the English translation of the explanation in Kingsborough,vol. VI, but the correct number is notstated. We find on plate 123 the combi-nation shown in our figure no interpretation of thispage is given, the .symbols clearly Fig. 37—Symbols tor1800. Codex TelU-r-iano-Remensis, plate25. Fig. SB—Symbol for 200cacaxtles. Mendozacodex, plate 44, Fig. 38—S>-mbol for 4,00s. Vaticaii codex3738, plate 7, figures 2, 3. .signify 2x8,000+9x400 To what the numb?rirefer is uncertain, but probablyto warriors. These are all the types ofnumeral .symbols, except thecombined short lines and dotsfound in the codices, which areknown as such and have beendetermined, and are all thatClavigero gives. There arereasons for believing that there are some others, but there are nomeans known by which to determine the point. Although the valueof the various groups of short (black) lines and dots can easily be
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