224 CENTRAL AMERICAN PICTURE-WRITING. 
glyphs and each single hieroglyph was mounted on a library card, as 
follows: 
No. 2020. | Hieroglyph. | Plate LVI. 
Same as Numbers. Similar to Num- 
; bers. 
The cards were 6.5 by 4.5 inches. The chiffre was pasted on, in the 
center of the top space. Its number and the plate from which it came 
were placed as in the cut. The numbers of hieroglyphs which resembled 
the one in question could be written on the right half of the card, and 
the numbers corresponding to different recurrences of this hieroglyph 
occupied the left half. 
All this part of the work was most faithfully and intelligently per- 
formed for me by Miss Mary Lockwoop, to whom I desire to express 
the full amount of my obligations. A mistake in any part would have 
been fatal. But no mistakes occurred. 
These cards could now be arranged in any way I saw fit. The simple 
chiffres, for example, could be placed so as to bring like ones together. _ 
A compound hieroglyph could be placed among simple ones agreeing 
with any one of its components, and so on. 
The expense of forming this card catalogue of about 1,500 single hie- 
roglyphs was borne by the Ethnological Bureau of the Smithsonian In- 
stitution, and the catalogue is the property of that bureau, forming only 
one of its many rich collections of American picture-writings. 
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COMPARISON OF PLATES I AND IV (COPAN). 
In examining the various statues at Copan, as given by STEPHENS, 
one naturally looks for points of striking resemblance or striking differ- 
ence. Where all is unknown, even the smallest sign is examined, in 
the hope that it may prove a clue. The Plate I, Fig. 49, has a twisted 
knot (the “square knot” of sailors) of cords over its head, and above this 
is achiffre composed of ellipses, and above this again a sign like a sea-shell. 
A natural suggestion was that these might be the signs for the name of 
the personage depicted in Plate I. If this is so and we should find the 
same sign elsewhere in connection with a figure, we should expect to 
find this second figure like the first in every particular. This would be 
