Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . m )i o P 9. Fig. 46. Mexican symbols for various articles. glyph by the picture of a bird with short wings. But I am not clearas to the other element below it or what syllable it is meant to express. From all that we can make out and determine on fragment VIII(plate XIII), it is perfectly obvious that it is very closely analogous, onthe one hand, to our fragment VI (plate xi) and, on the other hand,to page 34 of the Goupil-Boban atlas and the so-called Vergara most striking characteristic of all these manuscri
Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . m )i o P 9. Fig. 46. Mexican symbols for various articles. glyph by the picture of a bird with short wings. But I am not clearas to the other element below it or what syllable it is meant to express. From all that we can make out and determine on fragment VIII(plate XIII), it is perfectly obvious that it is very closely analogous, onthe one hand, to our fragment VI (plate xi) and, on the other hand,to page 34 of the Goupil-Boban atlas and the so-called Vergara most striking characteristic of all these manuscripts is the pecul-iar s^^stem of notation—the ones being denoted by marks instead ofdots and always combined in groups of five—and also the complicated « Zeitschrift fur Ethnologie, 1888, v. 20, pp. 53 and
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