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BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



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ARM ORNAMENTS 



We have already stated that tli(^ leg ornament characteristic of the 

 manuscript occurs also as an arm ornament, h. It is seen on women 

 as well as men (see Dresden codex, pages IT to ]9). So, too, the other 

 leg ornaments represented in the Maya codices aj^pear as arm orna- 

 ments, both the bells (and this again in the death god, for instance, 

 Dresden codex, page 53) and the plain rings. The hitter often occur 

 in more varied form, as i (Dresden codex, page 27) and k (the same 

 place, page '28). 



Here, too, we have correspondences between the representations in 

 the codices and the figures in the Yucatan collection. Among the lat- 



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Fig. 1211. Dress of the lower part of the body of females. 



ter we find, aside from the ornament characteristic of the manu- 

 scripts, quite similar bracelets, as I, m, //, and the form (/' occurring 

 on the figure of the priest ; the forms />, </, and ;■ also occur. 



Nor are these arm ornaments wanting on the Yucatec reliefs, and 

 here again are found the forms of those in the manuscripts and the 

 Yucatan collection, .v," t," ii from Kabah : /', from Labphak; u\ from 

 Chichen. 



"These figures apparently represent an arm ornament of feather work (compare the 

 anklet from Kabah, fj). 



