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the person who signed the receipt on fragment VII (phite xii). 

 There the major-domo himself signed the receipt {a, figure 47). Here 

 his brother does not knoAv liow to Avrite. A Spaniard, Melchior de 



Contreras y Galp {e) signs for liim. The bill is paid by the 



same Manuel de Olvera mentioned on fragment VII (plate xii). 

 Here, two years earlier, he was corregidor; that is, village magis- 

 trate. 



I can not quite decipher the signature of the official before whom 

 the business was transacted, d. 



Finally, it is to be noticed that there are moreover three men's 

 heads on our fragment, each with a hieroglyph behind or over it, 

 which undoubtedly gives the name of the man. The heads with 

 hieroglyphs in the top row both stand at the beginning of a section 

 marked by a line of partition. The same seems to be the case in the 

 second row from the top ; for the progression here, as showm by the 

 position of the women's heads, is from left to right, although the 

 beginning of the division here (at the left end) is not especially 

 denoted by a line. In exactly the same way a man's head with a 

 hieroglyph is placed at the beginning of a section, designated by a 

 line, in the document of the American Philosophical Society. These 

 men's heads most probably represent the gobernadores de Indios or 

 the village magistrates who furnished the Avomen to balce tortillas. 

 The man on the left end of the second row from the top has the head 

 of a bird of prey behind him as a hieroglyph. His name may have 

 been quauhti, " eagle ", cuixtli, " hawk ", or something of the kind. 

 The man on the right end of the top row must have had a similar 

 name. The man at the left end of the top row has a hieroglyph 

 Avhich seems to consist of two pointed leaf ends, with thorns on the 

 upper surface. This may be the hieroglyph for Uitznauatl, for in 

 the list of names of jjersons of Uexotzinco, where Uitznauatl is a 

 quite common name, it is invariably expressed by the points of two 

 agave leaves draAvn side bv side. It is very remarkable that in the 

 document of the American Philosophical Society one of the two 

 men's heads represented there, the one at the left end of the third 

 row from the top, is marked by the same hieroglyph (see ?)i, figure 

 46). The one at the right end of the fifth row^ was probably named 

 Quiyauh, for his hieroglyph consists of three drops of rain hanging 

 down (or falling) (see n, same figure). 



Fragment XIII (plate xviii) of our collection and the Tribute 

 Roll 4 (Calendar 1) of the American Philosophical Society" are 

 doubtless distinct and independent documents, but so closely akin in 

 idea, in drawing, and in various details, that we can safely attribute 

 them to the same locality and period. Our fragment XIII (plate 

 xviii), having its explanation on the reverse side, is, therefore, a 



