. Bulletin. Ethnology. 184 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 28 These i-epresentations of war and capture are bordered on the right side of the fragment by another series of pictures at right angles to the former. Here, somewhat crudely and awkwardly executed, is a series of place hieroglyphs, before each of which is drawn a person- age seated on a chair, who must be meant for the ancestor of the tribe settled in that place. Most of these personages seem to hold flowers in their hands, probably to express peaceful enjoyment, therefore secure dominion. The king in Codex Vaticanus A, page 86,
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 184 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 28 These i-epresentations of war and capture are bordered on the right side of the fragment by another series of pictures at right angles to the former. Here, somewhat crudely and awkwardly executed, is a series of place hieroglyphs, before each of which is drawn a person- age seated on a chair, who must be meant for the ancestor of the tribe settled in that place. Most of these personages seem to hold flowers in their hands, probably to express peaceful enjoyment, therefore secure dominion. The king in Codex Vaticanus A, page 86, is sim- ilarly depicted, richly dressed, with a tobacco pipe in one hand and a bunch of flowers in the other. At the beginning of the series below, on the left, there is still to be seen the head of one of these figures and the bunch of flowers which he holds in his hand. All the rest is missing. Then follows a mountain with a thatched house on its top, and in front of it sits a man whose name is represented by the eagle's head above. The explanatory note reads: nica yahuayohca yn toca cuitli 3'n toconcol, that is, " hei'e is the place called yauayohcan. Cuitli, ' hawk ', is the ancestor *". Yauayocan might mean '' where they walk in a circle ". Cuitli is undoubtedly a dialect expression for I';*?*' IKVi'i^ cuixtli (cuixin, cuiztli), the name of ^ a smaller bird of prey (cuixin, " mi- PiG. 41. Mexican arlvphs from list of , ii\ t r^ ^ • jt names lauo ). I find cuixtli as a proper name, for instance, in the list of names of Almoyauacan in the Manuscrit Mexicain number 3, Bibliotheque Nationale (see a, figure 41). Then folloAvs a house with a stone roof and a person in front of it, above whom we see the head of the wind god by way of name hieroglyph. The place hieroglyph which doubtless was originally over the house is-missing, and as there is no explanatory note there is naturally nothing to be said regarding the place. According to the hieroglyph, t
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