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feathers hang down over them, a^ figure 121 (Dresden codex, page 

 27), and h, somewhat diiTerent (page 25). The upper part of this 

 figure is naked, save for the eUiborate neck ornament. 



Plate XLV, number 5, the figure of a priest in the Yucatan collec- 

 tion (compare the description of this figure by Doctor IThle in the 

 Verotfentlichungen aus dem Kaiserlichen Museum fiir Volkerkunde, 

 October, 188S, pages 15 and 16) aifords a suitable object for compari- 

 son w4th the above-mentioned example of sacerdotal dress, the only 

 one in the manuscripts. Instead of the cotton strips we have here 

 an obvious stiff belt, as in the codices, below it an apron, which is 

 open in front, just as in the manuscripts, / and //, figure 120. 

 The pendent strips of cotton are missing, however. In the place of 

 them we see the legs clad in a kind of feather-work breeches, nothing 



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Pig. 121. Di-ess of tlip Inwpr body, from codices and sciilptiirps. 



analogous to which occurs in the manuscripts or on the reliefs, unless 

 we choose to compare the leg ornaments already described (see e. fig- 

 ure 118, and /, figure 110). Besides this, the upper part of the body 

 is fully dressed in a feather shirt, which even has sleeves, a thing 

 which occurs nowhere else in the codices nor apparently on- the 

 reliefs. Here, too, together with certain resemblances, Ave find strik- 

 ing differences. But we shall return to this figure farther on." 



Still greater are the differences found by a comparison of the 

 remaining clay figures in the Yucatan collection and the figures 

 on the reliefs with the representations thus far described. The cotton 

 strip described by Landa, occasionally occurring in the manuscripts, 

 is very unusual on the Yucatec reliefs. It is unmistakably recog- 

 nized in a representation at Kabah (c, figure 121, after Stephens). 



" See' the standing figure on the bas-relief in Stephens's Central America, n. 26. 

 belt there has the same decoration as in the above figure of a priest in the collection. 



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