Brinton.] 302 [Oct. 6, 



12. Tziquin lc''ih. — " Season of birds." See the Cakchiquel 

 month of this name. 



13. Cdlnm. — See the Cakchiquel month of this name. 



14. BoUnn. — See the Cakchiquel month Ibola. 



15. Nahey zih. — The first ziJi.. The word is explained as a 

 tree which bears abundant white flowers and blossoms at this 

 season. Gavarrete gives erroneously' Tzih, " word." 



16. Ucab zih. — The second zih. 



17. Box zih.— The third zih. 



18. Chee. — Trees or wood. See the Cakchiquel month Pa- 

 riche. 



THE CHAPANEC CALENDAR. 



The Chapanecs of Chiapas, belonging to a linguistic stock 

 wholly different from the Mayas, Nahuas or Zapotecs, also made 

 use of this Calendar. This we know from the fact that they 

 counted 18 months to their year, each of twenty days, and al- 

 lowed five intercalar}' days, called nhu, precisely as did the 

 Nahuas and Mayas. 



It is peculiarly unfortunate that we have not the names of 

 their daj^s, and those of their months are preserved in a sadly 

 imperfect manner. Mr. Alphonse Pinart has published two 

 lists, both incomplete, at the close of his edition of the A7'te de 

 la Lengna Chiapaneca, of Fray Juan de Albornoz ; but they do 

 not seem to have constituted a part of that work ; at least they 

 are not in the MS. cop}^ of it in my possession. 



It would not be difficult for a person acqnainted with the 

 climate and routine of culture pursued b}' the Chapanecs to 

 construct from these two lists one which would be accurate and 

 complete, but as I do not possess that knowledge, I give them 

 as they are, so as to comi)lete this portion of mj^ stud}-, I add, 

 in some instances, possible derivations, from the MS. Chapanec 

 Vocabulary of Dr. Berendt, but in most cases the et3'mology of 

 the names is quite obscure. 



