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These i-epresentations of war and capture are bordered on the right 

 side of the fragment by another series of pictures at right angles to 

 the former. Here, somewhat crudely and awkwardly executed, is a 

 series of place hieroglyphs, before each of which is drawn a person- 

 age seated on a chair, who must be meant for the ancestor of the tribe 

 settled in that place. Most of these personages seem to hold flowers 

 in their hands, probably to express peaceful enjoyment, therefore 

 secure dominion. The king in Codex Vaticanus A, page 86, is sim- 

 ilarly depicted, richly dressed, with a tobacco pipe in one hand and a 

 bunch of flowers in the other. 



At the beginning of the series below, on the left, there is still to 

 be seen the head of one of these figures and the bunch of flowers 

 which he holds in his hand. All the rest is missing. 



Then follows a mountain with a thatched house on its top, and in 

 front of it sits a man whose name is represented by the eagle's head 

 above. The explanatory note reads: nica yahuayohca yn toca cuitli 



3'n toconcol, that is, " hei'e is the place 

 called yauayohcan. Cuitli, ' hawk ', is 

 the ancestor *". Yauayocan might mean 

 '' where they walk in a circle ". Cuitli 

 is undoubtedly a dialect expression for 

 I'l."*?*' IKVi'i^ cuixtli (cuixin, cuiztli), the name of 



^ a smaller bird of prey (cuixin, " mi- 



PiG. 41. Mexican arlvphs from list of , ii\ t r^ ^ • jt 



names lauo ). I find cuixtli as a proper 



name, for instance, in the list of names 

 of Almoyauacan in the Manuscrit Mexicain number 3, Bibliotheque 

 Nationale (see a, figure 41). 



Then folloAvs a house with a stone roof and a person in front of it, 

 above whom we see the head of the wind god by way of name 

 hieroglyph. The place hieroglyph which doubtless was originally 

 over the house is-missing, and as there is no explanatory note there is 

 naturally nothing to be said regarding the place. According to the 

 hieroglyph, the person must have been named Ehecatl, a word which 

 often occurs as the name of a person. On account of their unusual 

 form, I give three designs, *", d, c, which in the list of names of 

 Almoyauacan (Manuscrit Mexicain number 3) designate persons by 

 the name of Ehecatl. 



Next follows a mountain Avith a bush on the top, painted rose- 

 color; in front of it, a house with a stone roof; and before this, sitting 

 on the tepotzo-icpalli, the woven-straw seat with a back, a personage 

 wdiose name is indicated by a jaguar's head above. The note says: 

 Auh nicah zacateotlah yn toconcol yn tocah ocenllotli (" and here 

 follows Zacateotlan. His ancestor's name was Ocelotl"). Boturini 

 read this Zacatzotlah. As I read the name, it contains the words 



