. Bulletin. Ethnology. (UO BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 28 women's usual attire. The representations at Palenque and Copan show us exactly the same thing. Such joetticoats are very common in the Maya manuscripts (see d^ figure 122, Dresden codex, page 17, above; ^, same figure, from the Dresden codex, page 21, above and /, from Codex Cortesianus, page 35). They are almost always richly decorated and seem to have been an especially favored article of the Aveaver's and dyer's art among the Mayas. Especially dis- tinct ornamentations of a very tasteful kind, quite recalling the Greek class
. Bulletin. Ethnology. (UO BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 28 women's usual attire. The representations at Palenque and Copan show us exactly the same thing. Such joetticoats are very common in the Maya manuscripts (see d^ figure 122, Dresden codex, page 17, above; ^, same figure, from the Dresden codex, page 21, above and /, from Codex Cortesianus, page 35). They are almost always richly decorated and seem to have been an especially favored article of the Aveaver's and dyer's art among the Mayas. Especially dis- tinct ornamentations of a very tasteful kind, quite recalling the Greek classic style, occur in a figure in the Troano codex, page 27, below delate xlv, number 7). In another from the Troano codex (page 25, plate xlv, number 8) the skirt is shorter than is usually seen elsewhere in the manuscripts. The women of the loAver classes, however, as well as the men, seem to have worn merely a simple cloth about their hips, examples of which are seen in the Dresden manu- script, as g^ figure 122 (Dresden codex, page 10, below).. a h c Fig. 123. Mantles from Maya codices. Petticoats like those copied above from the manuscripts, and wath similar ornaments, are worn, as already stated, by the female figures in the reliefs of the Yucatan collection. Here, too, the ornamenta- tion often displays graceful and tasteful meander patterns. This article of dress seems to have been of like appearance and nature throughout Central America. It occurs as frequently among the reliefs at Palenque as among the idols of Copan, and the pattern in both jilaces agrees exactly with «, figure 123 (see Stephens, Central America, number 7, statue at Copan, and number 34, bas-relief at Palenque). In old Mayapan j^roper (Yucatan) female figures are very rare among the architectural remains, but they are all the more abundant in the Yucatan collection, where the petticoats, as in the Dresden codex, usually reach to the ankles (see plate xlv, number 1). DRESS OF THE UPPER PART OF THE BODY
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