. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. k O 0 o c O O o o o g. a f Fig. 116. Tattooing and facial decoration. they are not more probably conventional symbolic accessories to therepresentation. A peculiarity of the manuscripts, which is especiallynoticeable in the written characters and which consists in indicatingthe jawbone with the teeth in human faces (especially in the case ofthe death god, but not in his alone), recurs as tattooing on a figure inthe Yucatan collection at the museum. The figure given on plate i ofthe Veroffentlichungen des Koniglichen, M
. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. k O 0 o c O O o o o g. a f Fig. 116. Tattooing and facial decoration. they are not more probably conventional symbolic accessories to therepresentation. A peculiarity of the manuscripts, which is especiallynoticeable in the written characters and which consists in indicatingthe jawbone with the teeth in human faces (especially in the case ofthe death god, but not in his alone), recurs as tattooing on a figure inthe Yucatan collection at the museum. The figure given on plate i ofthe Veroffentlichungen des Koniglichen, Museum fur Volkerkunde,October, 1888, one of the finest pieces in the collection, on close exam-ination shows tattooing on the face, as restored in the accompanyingcut, &, figure 116. a It would lead us too far to go into particulars. We may mention the decorated eye(a, fig. 116), which occurs so often, also the face of the deity C, who is frequentlyrepresented in Codex Troano-Cortesianus, and the god F, the figure with the thick blackline on the face, Troano codex, p. 30, below, Codex Cort
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