TAILIEUCHUNG - Animal Figures in the Maya Codices

The various peoples inhabiting Mexico and Central America in early pre-Columbian times were accustomed to record various events, especially in regard to their calendar and the religious ceremonials in relation to it, on long strips of skin or bark. These were usually painted on both sides and folded together like a screen. Several of these codices are still in existence from the Nahua and Zapotec areas in Mexico, but only three have come down to us from the Maya region which is included in the peninsula of Yucatan, the states of Tabasco and Chiapas in Mexico, and portions of Guatemala and Honduras. These three manuscripts. | Animal Figures in the Maya Codices by 1 Animal Figures in the Maya Codices by Alfred M. Tozzer and Glover M. Allen This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Animal Figures in the Maya Codices Author Alfred M. Tozzer and Glover M. Allen Release Date August 14 2006 EBook 19042 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ANIMAL FIGURES IN THE MAYA CODICES Produced by Julia Miller and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http Transcriber s Note 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. Animal Figures in the Maya Codices by 2 The following codes are used for characters that are not able to be represented in the text format used for this version of the book. a a with breve c open o c . open o with dot under h h with stroke p. p with dot under Aq q with circumflex vs s with caron vs. s with caron and dot under t. t with dot under ts. ts with dot under Dagger Double dagger PAPERS OF THE PEABODY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY HARVARD UNIVERSITY VOL. . 3. ANIMAL FIGURES IN THE MAYA CODICES BY ALFRED M. TOZZER . AND GLOVER M. ALLEN . CAMBRIDGE MASS. PUBLISHED BY THE MUSEUM FEBRUARY 1910 Salem Press THE SALEM PRESS CO. SALEM MASS. 1910. NOTE It has been thought desirable for the advancement of the study of Maya hieroglyphs that the interpretation of the conventionalized animal figures which so frequently occur in the Maya codices should be undertaken. The Peabody Museum Committee on Central American Research therefore requested Dr. A. M. Tozzer to prepare a paper on the subject and to secure the valuable

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