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the priest' shoot forward and backward. Seler calls them birds' 

 wings; but this does not agree with HabeFs drawing. No further 

 explanation of them or of the function of the divinity can hv given. 



Of the following three pieces our Museum possesses casts. They 

 differ from those already noticed not only in their dimensions, but also 

 in respect to the subjects they represent: 



No. 9. The original block is incomplete, especially in the upper 

 part. Habel says its height is 9, its breadth 4 P:nglish feet, l^pon a 

 richly carved chair, apparently an armchair, sits a man whose rich 

 attire shows him to be a chief. In his hand he holds a paddle-shaped 

 object, but the upper end of it is cut off by the break of the stone. It 

 is probably a scepter or other symbol of the dignity of its bearer, for 

 it can hardly be meant for a weapon. 



Nos. 10 and 11. Habel gives for the respective lengths of these 

 blocks 5 feet 5 inches and 5 feet 1 inch, English measure, and for 

 their heights 2 feet 10 inches and 3 feet. They were, at any rate, 

 introduced into the building as cross pieces, and, judging b}- their 

 designs, were pendants to one another, although No. 11 has n 

 plain border S inches wide, which No. 10 has not. Upon each ])linth 

 lies a man opposite to whom stands a symbolic tigure, who seems to 

 have some sort of business with hun, although the sign of discourse is 

 absent. But what that Inisiness may be it is hard to say. It has ]>een 

 suggested that the reclining men are ill, and that in No. 10 it is Death; 

 in No. 11 the medicine man who confronts the patient. It is, however, 

 possible that the symbolical figures, to which, in the case of No. 10, 

 ten counters, or numerals, and under them a pair of steps with a cross, 

 placed X-wise upon them, and in the case of No. 11 five counters and 

 a pair of steps are attached, are names or dates. The syml>olic-al 

 figures Death and a stag are in old Mexico, and also with the Mayas, 

 day -signs, which combined with numerals would make "10 Death" 

 and "3 Stag." These combinations of the signs are favored by the 

 circumstance that in No. 10 Death is joined to the numerals by a 

 guiding sign.' But what the steps with the cross, and what the steeps 

 alone should mean, and whether they are. or are not. connected with 

 the numerals, can not for the present l)e decided. The headdress of 

 the recumbent man of No. 10 has some" similarity with that of the 

 head borne bv the upper right-hand assistant of No. 1. Noteworthy 

 are an amulet upon his breast and a garter with a rosette upon his 

 right leg. The feet are bare. The stiff girdle is absent, but the 

 breechclout is correctly shown in its form and the mode of wearmg it. 

 The skeleton, girded with a snake, is surrounded with flames, and 

 points with its right hand to the recumbent man, or probably to the 

 figure with the steps and cross. The recumbent bear ded man ot No. 



1 The text reads Gottheit, divinity.— Translator. 



•^I suppose he means that Death poiiits his finger at tlxe.0^— Th-^nsl.^to«- 



