Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . ^ the little baskets in which hot tortillas were , on the left, folloAV bundles, apparently meant to represent. q • r s t Fig. 44. Mexican symbols of various objects. zacatl, green cornstalks , which have been used in preference forhorse fodder from the time of the conquest to the present day (see <7,1 and 2, figure 44, the former taken from the Goupil-Boban atlas,plate 27, the latter from the Pintura del Gobernador, Alcaldes yRegidores de Mexico, and both described in the text as Zacatl). 198 BUREAU OF A
Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . ^ the little baskets in which hot tortillas were , on the left, folloAV bundles, apparently meant to represent. q • r s t Fig. 44. Mexican symbols of various objects. zacatl, green cornstalks , which have been used in preference forhorse fodder from the time of the conquest to the present day (see <7,1 and 2, figure 44, the former taken from the Goupil-Boban atlas,plate 27, the latter from the Pintura del Gobernador, Alcaldes yRegidores de Mexico, and both described in the text as Zacatl). 198 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 28 In the topmost roAV (on Sunday) there is a turkey, the Sunday roast,instead of the fishes. For the better understanding of the somewhatcrude drawing I have reproduced in figure 44, the rather morecarefully drawn head from tlie Goupil-Boban atlas, plate 27, whichis there expressly mentioned in the text as gallina de la tierra . Above these objects, which represent food for man and beast, arevarious figures: Small flags wdiich designate the numeral 20 andgroups of small circles, each of which means 1, and also larger circles,which are either empty or contain one o
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