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sible to tell whether they are clad in sandals. Some of them, how- 

 ever, are evidently bare. The fine, lifelike figure of a priest copied in 

 the Veroffentlichungen des Koniglichen Museum fiir VcWkerkunde, 

 October, 1888, plate x, wears distinctly executed sandals, of the form 

 given in a, figure 118. We also find in the same collection a certain 

 number of large clay feet with sandals, 5, strongly resembling those 

 given above taken from the Dresden manuscript. These feet do not 

 seem to have been l)roken off larger figures, but to have an independ- 

 ent purpose, one of religious symbolism. This view is confirmed by 

 the circumstance that similar feet are given in the Troano codex, 

 page 21, in a sacrificial scene, c. 



Pig. 118. Representations of sandals and leg ornaments. 



The form and manner of fastening these various foot coverings is 

 easily recognized from the illustrations (see a similar modern exam- 

 ple that follows the ancient models in Guatemala in Stoll, Ethnol- 

 ogic der Indianer von Guatemala, 1889, supplement to Internationales 

 Archiv fiir Ethnographie, plate i, figure 15). This one subject of 

 comparison shows hoAV strikingly the remains differ one from the 

 other. 



DRESS AND ORNAMENTATION OF THE LEG 



A'\'Tiile foot wear is so rare in the Maya manuscripts, a peculiar 

 article of dress or ornament for the lower part of the leg is all the 

 more common, but only for males, however, as the women do not 

 wear it. This object is to be seen on almost every figure in all the 

 Maya manuscripts, and may be regarded as distinctly characteristic 

 of these re]3resentations (another proof of the common origin of the 



