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MEXICAN PICTUKE WRITINGS FRAGMENT VII 



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Inside in the lowest row, between fishes, were baskets woven of straw 

 (jjainted yellow), apparently of pliable material, each of which in 

 this lowest row rests on a flat disk having three feet. These are 

 apjiarentlj^ the little baskets in which hot tortillas were brought. 

 Last, on the left, follow bundles, apparently meant to represent 



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Fii;. 44. Mexican symbols of various ol).jects. 



zaeatl. "green cornstalks", which have been used in preference for 

 horse fodder from the time of the conquest to the present day (see a, 

 1 and 2, figure 44, the former taken from the Goupil-Boban atlas, 

 plate 27, the latter from the Pintura del Gobernador, Alcaldes y 

 Regidores de Mexico, and botli described in the text as Zaeatl). 



