SELER] MEXICAN PICTURE WRITINGS FRAGMENTS III, IV 185 



'ftca-tl, "grass", teo-tl, "god", and the final syllable tla or tlan, 

 which has the significance of a locative. Oceotl, " jaguar ", is a very 

 common proper name. 



The last picture in the series is again a house with a stone roof; 

 but the place hieroglyph, which nnist have been there originally, is 

 missing. A personage is drawn in front of the house, whose name is 

 given above by the representation of a stone knife (tecpatl). Here, 

 t w, there is a note, but it is almost illegible. The place name, in 



particular, can not be deciphered. I read : Nica mazap Ic 



yn toca . 



The notes, few words as they contain, are remarkable on account of 

 their dialect form. In classic Aztec, nican means "here"; tococol, 

 "our ancestor"; ocelotl, "the jaguar". The writer who added the 

 notes on our fragment III (plate viii) drops the final nasal after the 

 short a in nican, and writes nica and nicah. And thus yahuayohca 

 and zacateotlah probably stand for yauayocan and zacateotlan. After 

 the long vowels o and e, on the otlier hand, he inserts a nasal. He 

 distinctly writes, both times, toconcol, " our ancestor ", and ocenllotl, 

 " the jaguar ". I will mention here that, also in Tezozomoc's Cronica 

 Mexicana, compilli is written for copilli, and occasionally also ocen- 

 lotl. So, too, Ave occasionally find in Sahagun Tontec for Totec (one 

 of Xipe's names). 



Fragment IV is, as I have said, and as inspection shows, a piece of 

 the same manuscript to which fragment III (plate viii) belonged; 

 but it is difficult to determine wliether it should be added to any part 

 of it. 



On fragment IV (plate ix) we have, to the right, the figure of a 

 warrior and the shield and maquauitl of another. The face painting 

 and ornaments are the same as those of the warrior figures on the 

 previous fragment, but the shield has a plain red surface. Beside the 

 foremost warrior is a Avord which I read Ehcaquiyauh. The quiyauh 

 seems quite plain, but the other part is perhaps doubtful. Ehcaqui- 

 yauh w^ould mean " wind and rain ". Below the (igures of warriors 

 there is executed on a large scale a stream of Avater. Avith draAvings of 

 Avhirlpools on its surface and snail shells on its branches. On the 

 upper edge there is a series of representations, proceeding from the 

 left, Avhich correspond to those on the right side of fragment III 

 (plate viii). But there are no explanatory notes. The houses are 

 thatched Avith straAv. The small benches on Avhich the personages sit 

 are all painted blue, like the Avood of the maquauitl. The first person 

 from the left seems to carry the pictui-e of a six-rayed or seven-rayed 

 star, painted yelloAV, aboA^e his head, by Avay of a name hieroglyph. 

 Hence the man's name Avas probably Citlal. OA^er the h(>ad of the sec- 

 ond I think I see the di-aAving of a l)()ne, and over tlie tliii'd (hat of a 



