. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. he reliefs at Palenque. A richcovering for the whole lower leg is also not unusual there, /. A foot ring, apparently made of the feather work that is held insuch high esteem in Central America, occurs on a figure in a carvingon a beam of sapota wood at Kabah, g, after Stephens. Similar ex-amples are frequent at Palenque. 606 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 28 ARM ORNAMENTS We have already stated that the leg ornament characteristic of themanuscript occurs also as an arm ornament, h. It is seen on womenas well as me
. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. he reliefs at Palenque. A richcovering for the whole lower leg is also not unusual there, /. A foot ring, apparently made of the feather work that is held insuch high esteem in Central America, occurs on a figure in a carvingon a beam of sapota wood at Kabah, g, after Stephens. Similar ex-amples are frequent at Palenque. 606 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 28 ARM ORNAMENTS We have already stated that the leg ornament characteristic of themanuscript occurs also as an arm ornament, h. It is seen on womenas well as men (see Dresden codex, pages IT to 19). So, too, the otherleg ornaments represented in the Maya codices appear as arm orna-ments, both the bells (and this again in the death god, for instance,Dresden codex, page 53) and the plain rings. The latter often occurin more varied form, as i (Dresden codex, page 27) and k (the sameplace, page 28). Here, too, we have correspondences between the representations inthe codices and the figures in the Yucatan collection. Among the lat-.
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