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Tablet, Smitlisoniun. See Smithsonian tablet. i 



Tablets, sculptured, in the village of Santo Domingo; 

 former])- in the Temple of the Cross ; seen there 

 by Del Eio, 17; by Dupai.x, 18; by Galindo, 10; 

 afterv-'ard removed to Santo Domingo ; noticed by 

 Stephens, Waldeck and Charnay, 28. 



Temple of the Beau Relief, 16. 



Temple of the Cross, 3, 4, 1-5, et seq. ; Del Rio's account, 

 15; Dupaix's account, 17; Galindo's observations, 

 19; Stephens and Charnay, 20; dimensions; altar, 

 21 ; views and ground plan, 22 ; excavations made 

 by Del Rio ; superstructure, 23 ; chief ornament : 

 the Tablet of the Cross, 24; other sculptured tab- 

 lets, 28 ; stone statues, 29 ; the left slab of the Tab- 

 let of the Cross still in its place, 31. 



Temple of the Sun, 16, 17; resembles the Temple of the 

 Cross ; tablet, 23, 38, 39. 



Temple of the Three Tablets, 16 ; restoration after Ar- 

 min, 65. 



Temples, on the Island of Cozumel, 40, 66 ; at Cundina- 

 marca and Popayan, 43. 



Teocalli, 41. 



Tiedemann, Prof., supports the theory of a pre-Colum- 

 bian propagation of Christianity in America, 39. 



Tihoo, time of occupancy, 73. 



Toltecs, their adoration of the cross, 43. 



TonacaquahuitI, 43, 44, 46. 



Trogon resplendens, Gould, 38. 



Tylor, E. B., on Mexican writing; "Researches etc.," 

 52. 



Tzendals, still living in the neighborhood of Palenque, 

 6 ; buildings of Palenque perhaps erected by them, 

 38. 



Tzimin-chak, 68. 



Valentini, Dr. Phil. J. J., on the Mexican calendar- 

 stone ; receives a photograph of the Smithsonian 

 tablet, 3 ; recognizes it as the complement of the 

 Tablet of the Cross, 4 ; on Landa's alphabet, 50. 



Villagutierre Soto-Mayor, Juan de, " Historia de la 

 Conquista de la Provincia de el Itza," cit. 68. 



Vogt, Prof. Carl, describes A. Bertrand's experiments 



in sculpturing stone, 37. 

 Votan, tradition relative to, fl. 



Waldeck. Jean-Frederic de, explores the ruins of Palen- 

 que, 3, 10 ei scij.; makes the illustrations for the 

 English translation of Del Rio's report, 8, 10 ; bio- 

 graphical notice ; arrival at Palenque, 10 ; his 

 drawings examined by a commission appointed by 

 the French government; their publication with a 

 text by Brassour de Bourbourg, 11 ; " Monuments 

 Anciens du Mexique etc.," cit. 21, 26, 28, 29, 30; 

 plan of Palenque, 10 ; his plate representing the 

 pyramid supporting the Temple of the Cross, 21 ; 

 notice of the middle slab of the Temple of the 

 Cross, 25; sees tablets from the Temple of the Cross-" 

 at the village of Santo Domingo, 28 ; discovers two 

 stone statues, 29 ; his delineation of the Tablet of 

 the Cross, 33, 34, 35, 36, 59 ; design of glyphs on 

 the left tablet in the Temple of the Cross, 58. 



Wuttke, Prof. H., on Landa's alphabet, 49; its origin, 

 50 ; " Die Entstehung der Schrift, etc.," cit. 49, 50. 



Xuyum, mounds at, 67, 



Yucatan, work on by Waldeck, 11 ; crosses, 40, 41, 43 ; 

 aboriginal writing, 47 ei seq.; ruins, 65 et seq.; 

 Stephens on their antiquity, 65; buildings, etc., de- 

 scribed by Landa and Lizana, 71 ei seq.; antiquity 

 of ruins according to Bancroft, 75. 



Tucatec alphabet, 47 et seq.; signs, 48; opinion of Prof. 

 Wiittke, 49; Dr. Brinton's views, 52. 



Tucatec calendar, 47 ; signs, 60. 



Tucatec writing, .system of, 47 ei seq.; invention as- 

 cribed to Zamna, 74. 



Yucatecs, their implements, 37 ; writing, 47 ei seq. 



Zamna, the reputed civilizer of the Mayas and founder 

 of Mayapan ; supposed to have invented Tucatec 

 writing; buried at Izamal, 74. 



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