. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. d e f g Fig. 118. Representations of sandals and leg ornaments. The form and manner of fastening these various foot coverings iseasily recognized from the illustrations (see a similar modern exam-ple that follows the ancient models in Guatemala in Stoll, Ethnol-ogie der Indianer von Guatemala, 1889, supplement to InternationalesArchiv fiir Ethnographie, plate i, figure 15). This one subject ofcomparison shows how strikingly the remains differ one from theother. DRESS AND ORNAMENTATION OF THE LEG While foot wear is so r
. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. d e f g Fig. 118. Representations of sandals and leg ornaments. The form and manner of fastening these various foot coverings iseasily recognized from the illustrations (see a similar modern exam-ple that follows the ancient models in Guatemala in Stoll, Ethnol-ogie der Indianer von Guatemala, 1889, supplement to InternationalesArchiv fiir Ethnographie, plate i, figure 15). This one subject ofcomparison shows how strikingly the remains differ one from theother. DRESS AND ORNAMENTATION OF THE LEG While foot wear is so rare in the Maya manuscripts, a peculiararticle of dress or ornament for the lower part of the leg is all themore common, but only for males, however, as the women do notwear it. This object is to be seen on almost every figure in all theMaya manuscripts, and may be regarded as distinctly characteristicof these representations (another proof of the common origin of the BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY BULLETIN 28 PLATE XLV J\»>aa >*^ C/JlP!. DRESS AS SHOWN IN SCULPTURED FIGURES, YUCATAN SCHELLHAS] DRESS AND ORNAMENTATION OF LEG 605 manuscripts). It takes the form of d in all the manuscripts, andit appears in similar shape and almost as often as an arm judge by the manuscripts, it must have been in general use as anational article of ornament. Hence it is the more amazing that wenowhere encounter it among the reliefs nor on any of the figures inthe Yucatan collection. A leg ornament appears, it is true, quite fre-quently among the former, but never in the shape which we regu-larly find in the manuscripts. Compare e (from a doorpost atKabah, after Stephens), and / (mural decoration at Chichen, afterthe same). Such coverings for the entire lower leg are wholly absentfrom the Yucatan collection. Besides the above-mentioned leg ornament, single instances of an-other kind appear in the manuscripts, shaped like g. It is found onlyon the figure of the death god and eviden
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