. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. 20, above; k, Troano codex, page 34; CodexPeresianus, page 15, and others having the form of this ornament onthe figure of the priest, lh). Similar collars are very frequentlyfound in the Maya codices on the figure of the death god, and wheresnch a collar occurs the necklace found everywhere else is absent. As a general thing these collars are infrequent. They seem to havebeen no everyday article of attire. A few variations occur in themanuscripts, for instance, in m (Dresden codex, page 10, below) and n(Troano codex,
. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. 20, above; k, Troano codex, page 34; CodexPeresianus, page 15, and others having the form of this ornament onthe figure of the priest, lh). Similar collars are very frequentlyfound in the Maya codices on the figure of the death god, and wheresnch a collar occurs the necklace found everywhere else is absent. As a general thing these collars are infrequent. They seem to havebeen no everyday article of attire. A few variations occur in themanuscripts, for instance, in m (Dresden codex, page 10, below) and n(Troano codex, page 31, middle). a It also appears on the heads in the glyphic writing, as, for instance, in the inscrip-tion on a pottery vessel in the Yucatan collection (g, fig. 126). * Strange to say, this figure wears no ear ornament. The collar is half hroken off. 616 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 28 Lastly, we have a peculiar ornament in a picture of the deathgod, 0, in the Dresden manuscript, page 10, above. It seems to be a necklace of feather work, from which hangs the. Pig. 126. Ear ornaments and collars sign of the death god, cimi. The figure is also interesting because itdistinctly shows us how the ear ornaments represented above (c. d, e,
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