Anthropology

Animal Figures in the Maya Codices

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 complete list found at the end of the text.

Chapters

5. Chapter 5

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...

3. Chapter 3

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...

2. Chapter 2

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...

7. Chapter 7

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...

6. Chapter 6

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...

8. Chapter 8

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...

4. Chapter 4

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...

1. Chapter 1

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...

9. Chapter 9

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...

10. Chapter 10

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-...