. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... 154 and 165, Plate XXIV, to be corresponding references tomembers of this family. No. 4, Plate Va, and No. 155 also correspond. No. 4242, Plate XXII, is probably related to No. 53, Plate XXIV andits congeners. Nos. 14 and 34, Plate Va, are clearly related to No. 900, Plate LIV,Nos. 127 and 176, Plate XXIV, No. 3010, Plate LVI, and many others. Plate IIP of Copan is evidently identically the same as the No. 75of the Palenque Plate No. XXIV. The right half of No. 27, Plate Va, is the same as the right


. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... 154 and 165, Plate XXIV, to be corresponding references tomembers of this family. No. 4, Plate Va, and No. 155 also correspond. No. 4242, Plate XXII, is probably related to No. 53, Plate XXIV andits congeners. Nos. 14 and 34, Plate Va, are clearly related to No. 900, Plate LIV,Nos. 127 and 176, Plate XXIV, No. 3010, Plate LVI, and many others. Plate IIP of Copan is evidently identically the same as the No. 75of the Palenque Plate No. XXIV. The right half of No. 27, Plate Va, is the same as the right half of , 3010, and many others of Plate LVI. No. 17, Plate Va, is related to No. 2051, Plate LVI, and many otherslike it. The major part of No. 4105, Plate XIII, is the same as No. 124, PlateXXIV, etc. It is not necessary to add a greater number of examples here. The card-catalogue which I have mentioned enables me to at once pick out all thecases of which the above are specimens, taken just as they fell undermy eye in rapidly turning over the cards. They therefore represent the. Fig. 52.—Yucatcc Stone. ] THE MAYA HIEROGLYPHS. 229 average agreement, neither more nor less. Taken together they showthat the same signs were used at Copan and at Palenqne. As the samesymbols used at both places occur in like positions in regard to thehuman face, etc., I conclude that not only were the same signs used atboth places, but that these signs had the same meaning; i. e., were trulysynonyms. In future I shall regard this as demonstrated. VIII. HUITZILOPOCHTLI (MEXICAN GOD OF WAR), TEOYAOMI-QUI (MEXICAN GODDESS OF DEATH), MICLANTECUTLI(MEXICAN GOD OF HEEL), AND TLALOC (MEXICAN RAIN-GOD), CONSIDERED IN RELATION TO CENTRAL AMERI-CAN DIVINITIES. In the Congrcs des Americanistes, session de Luxembourg, vol. ii, , is a report of a memoir of Dr. Leemans, entitled Description dequelques antiques americaines conservees dans le Mus£e royal neer-landais dautiquites a. Leide. O


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