. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. U OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 28 womens usual attire. The representations at Palenque and Copanshow us exactly the same thing. Such petticoats are very common inthe Maya manuscripts (see d, figure 122, Dresden codex, page 17,above; e, same figure, from the Dresden codex, page 21, above and;•, from Codex Cortesianus, page 35). They are almost alwaysrichly decorated and seem to have been an especially favored articleof the weavers and dyers art among the Mayas. Especially dis-tinct ornamentations of a very tasteful kind
. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. U OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 28 womens usual attire. The representations at Palenque and Copanshow us exactly the same thing. Such petticoats are very common inthe Maya manuscripts (see d, figure 122, Dresden codex, page 17,above; e, same figure, from the Dresden codex, page 21, above and;•, from Codex Cortesianus, page 35). They are almost alwaysrichly decorated and seem to have been an especially favored articleof the weavers and dyers art among the Mayas. Especially dis-tinct ornamentations of a very tasteful kind, quite recalling theGreek classic style, occur in a figure in the Troano codex, page 27,below (plate xlv, number 7). In another from the Troano codex(page 25, plate xlv, number 8) the skirt is shorter than is usuallyseen elsewhere in the manuscripts. The women of the lower classes,however, as well as the men, seem to have worn merely a simple clothabout their hips, examples of which are seen in the Dresden manu-script, as g, figure 122 (Dresden codex, page 16, below).. b c Fig. 123. Mantles from Maya codices. Petticoats like those copied above from the manuscripts, and withsimilar ornaments, are worn, as already stated, by the female figuresin the reliefs of the Yucatan collection. Here, too, the ornamenta-tion often displays graceful and tasteful meander patterns. Thisarticle of dress seems to have been of like appearance and naturethroughout Central America. It occurs as frequently among thereliefs at Palenque as among the idols of Copan, and the pattern inboth places agrees exactly with a, figure 123 (see Stephens, CentralAmerica, number 7, statue at Copan, and number 34, bas-relief atPalenque). In old Mayapan proper (Yucatan) female figures arevery rare among the architectural remains, but the}7 are all the moreabundant in the Yucatan collection, where the petticoats, as in theDresden codex, usually reach to the ankles (see plate xlv, number 1). DRESS OF THE UPPER PART O
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