. Bulletin. Ethnology. O o o o o o G= _^c^. d f Fig. 116. Tattooing and facial decoration. they are not more probably conventional symbolic accessories to the representation. A peculiarity of the manuscripts, which is especially noticeable in the written characters and which consists in indicating the jawbone with the teeth in human faces (especially in the case of the death god, but not in his alone), recurs as tattooing on a figure in the Yucatan collection at the museum. The figure given on plate i of the Veroffentlichungen des Koniglichen, Museum fiir ViUkerkunde, October, 1888, one of the
. Bulletin. Ethnology. O o o o o o G= _^c^. d f Fig. 116. Tattooing and facial decoration. they are not more probably conventional symbolic accessories to the representation. A peculiarity of the manuscripts, which is especially noticeable in the written characters and which consists in indicating the jawbone with the teeth in human faces (especially in the case of the death god, but not in his alone), recurs as tattooing on a figure in the Yucatan collection at the museum. The figure given on plate i of the Veroffentlichungen des Koniglichen, Museum fiir ViUkerkunde, October, 1888, one of the finest pieces in the collection, on close exam- ination shows tattooing on the face, as restored in the accompanying cut, &, figure 116. « 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 frequently represented in Codes Troano-Cortesianus, and the god F, the figure with the thick black line on the face, Troano codex, p. 30, below. Codex Cortesianus, p. 42, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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