. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. acco leaves con polvos de una verba queellos llaman yietl, que es como belenos de castilla ( with dust of anherb which they call yietl, which is like henbane).6 Tobacco a One meaning of the syllable iauh is incense plant . Compare Sahagun, v. 2, pp. 25,35, and the hieroglyph of Yauhtepec in the Mendoza codex, v. 26, p. 14. But it also meansblack: yauh-tlaulli, mayz moreno 6 negro (Molina), b Sahagun, v. 2, p. 25. SKLEB] MEXICAN PICTURE WRITINGS FRAGMENT I 147 played precisely the same part among the priests and medicin
. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. acco leaves con polvos de una verba queellos llaman yietl, que es como belenos de castilla ( with dust of anherb which they call yietl, which is like henbane).6 Tobacco a One meaning of the syllable iauh is incense plant . Compare Sahagun, v. 2, pp. 25,35, and the hieroglyph of Yauhtepec in the Mendoza codex, v. 26, p. 14. But it also meansblack: yauh-tlaulli, mayz moreno 6 negro (Molina), b Sahagun, v. 2, p. 25. SKLEB] MEXICAN PICTURE WRITINGS FRAGMENT I 147 played precisely the same part among the priests and medicine men of ancient Mexico as it has from the remotest times down to the present, day among the various savage tribes of North and South America. The tobacco pouch (ie-quachtli) or tobacco calabash (ie-tecomatl) therefore, the special badge of priests. I have brought was, together, in a to A;, figure 33, a number of figures of priests from theMendoza codex and the still unpublished Aztec Sahagun manuscriptof the Biblioteca del Palacio at Madrid, with incense basin and copal. Fig. 33. Figures of priests from Mendoza codex and Sahagun manuscript. pouch, with sacrificial knife and copal pouch, and with the greatrattle stick Chicauaztli in their hands, and upon the back of each isplainly to be seen the tobacco pouch or tobacco box (painted yellowor brown in the original), between two large tassels. Only the priestsassistants, called quacuilli , who in i hold the victim by the armsand legs and in I bring down the burning billets of wood from thetemple, are dressed differently, simply like messengers of , there can be no doubt that the figures drawn in column a 148 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 28 of our manuscript, in squares 16, 62, and 72, and the mummy bundlein square 60 are meant to represent the figures of priests. But itshould be noted that the priests in our manuscript do not carry anie-quachtli but an ie-tecomatl on their back, one of peculiar shape,with la
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