Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . MEXICAN PAINTING-HUr BULLETIN 28 PLATE XIII. DLDT FRAGMENT VIII SELER] MEXICAN PICTURE WRITINGS FRAGMENT VIII 201 there are drawings, done with a fine pen, most of which are touciiedlip with colors. On the left side are heads of men. Behind each is ahieroglyph, which gives the name of the man in question, and in frontof each is the wooden implement used for field work, known as uictli,or couauacatl (see t and ii, figure 37). These persons are thus markedas husbandmen. Before each person is a row of fields with quad-rang
Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . MEXICAN PAINTING-HUr BULLETIN 28 PLATE XIII. DLDT FRAGMENT VIII SELER] MEXICAN PICTURE WRITINGS FRAGMENT VIII 201 there are drawings, done with a fine pen, most of which are touciiedlip with colors. On the left side are heads of men. Behind each is ahieroglyph, which gives the name of the man in question, and in frontof each is the wooden implement used for field work, known as uictli,or couauacatl (see t and ii, figure 37). These persons are thus markedas husbandmen. Before each person is a row of fields with quad-rangular boundaries, on the sides of which are numbers similar tothose which we encountered on fragment VI (plate xi). The num-bers on the opposite sides of the fields, as far as can be determined,are alike, except in some minute particulars. This shows that thesewere meant for pieces of arable land with quadrangular are hieroglyj^hs on the upper boundary and on the surface ofthe fields which are repeated in the difi^erent rows. In some of thefields, in the lower right-hand corner, there is also a rep
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