Animal Figures in the Maya Codices

In the Nuttall Codex, there frequently occur representations of a bird that was evidently used for sacrificial purposes. It is shown with erectile head feathers and a ring of ci...

Representations of a centipede (probably a species of _Scolopendra_) occur in the Dresden Codex and in several others examined. That shown in Pl. 5, fig. 1, from the Vaticanus 3...

ANIMAL HEAD-DRESSES. Animal figures appear perhaps most frequently as head-dresses of the various gods in the codices. Here, as elsewhere, from all that can be made out, the rel...

There are some examples in the manuscripts where the deer is pictured quite apart from any idea of the hunt or an offering. In Tro-Cortesianus 14b, it is shown on top of the bod...

This owl is used as a head-dress itself, but always for women, Dresden 16a (Pl. 23, fig. 19), 18b (Pl. 23, fig. 5), Tro-Cortesianus 94c (Pl. 23, fig. 4), and 95c (Pl. 23, fig. 2...

Beyer (1908, pp. 419-422) has identified the dog as the Pleiades and various other suggestions have been made that the dog represents some constellation. The more common form of...

God B also occurs in connection with the serpent in Dresden 42a (Pl. 8, fig. 14), where the god is seated on the reptile, in Tro-Cortesianus, 10b, where the head of the same god...

A number of typographical errors and inconsistencies have been maintained in this version of this book. They have been marked with a [TN-#], which refers to a description in the...

Landa, Diego de. 1864, Relacion de las cosas de Yucatan; Spanish text with French translation published by Brasseur de Bourbourg; 8^o, pp. 516, Paris. (The references in the tex...

1. Doe, Dresden 45c. 2. Same, Fegervary-Mayer 26. 3. Same, Tro-Cortesianus 29c. 4. Same, Nuttall 50. 5. Same captured in snare, Tro-Cortesianus 86a. 6. Head-dress of god M, Tro-...