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BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 

 Tablk 111. 



[bull. 28 



If, after making this correction, we consult a table of the Mexican 

 calendar, we see, assuming that the 5 nemontemi were named and 

 numbered continuously in the same way as the other days, that the 

 dates of the days given in column a are always exactly 365 days 

 apart. 



This, I think, clearly j)roves, first, that the pictures drawn in col- 

 umn B are actually the beginnings of quarters of years, and the dif- 

 ferent pictures a are meant to show the annual recurrence of tlie feast 

 Etzalqualiztli ; second, that the statement that the 5 nemontemi 

 were not counted can rest only on a misunderstanding. 



But our manuscript is of importance to chronology in yet another 

 respect. It is well known that the Mexicans called their years by the 

 four day signs Acatl, " reed " ; Tecpatl, " flint " ; Calli, " house ", 

 and Tochtli, " rabbit "", which they combined with the numerals 1 to 

 13 in the same way as in naming the days. 



