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DRESS OF LOWER PART OF BODY 



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The often-mentioned belt is also frequently seen on the reliefs; 

 both on the temple walls at Palenque " and in the statues at Copan 

 this article of dress occurs, frequently combined with an apron, as in 

 the Maya codices. 



A cotton strip of a hand's breadth, such as Landa describes, and 

 as undoubtedly occurs in the manuscripts, is scarcely to be found 

 among the figures in the Yucatan collection, but, on the other hand, 

 there is a very similar article of dress, that is, a wide loin cloth 

 wound round the hips of the form," seen in «, Z*, (\ figure 122. 



In the manuscripts this loin cloth sometimes so completely covers 

 the legs of the sitting figures that it looks as if the figure wore trous- 

 ers, '" bragas y calcas '\ according to Landa (see e and 7(, figure 120). 



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Fig. 122. Dress of females, from Dresden codex and monuments. 



As a rule the lower part of the body of the clay images is very 

 superficially executed, so that we often can hardly tell how it is 

 dressed. 



For iromen. According to Landa (see above), the Maya women 

 wore a skirt from the hips down. CogoUudo says the same, and 

 according to him this garment was called " pic ".'' 



In this respect all the illustrations agree. In the codices, on the 

 reliefs, and in the Yucatan collection such a skirt forms a part of the 



"See the dress of the fiajiire of a priest on two reliefs at Palenque; the vrellknown 

 representation of the cross and the relief in easa n. 3, after Stephens. There, too, it 

 consists of a wide cloth. 



"Pic in Maya is fnstan (fustian petticoat), according to Beltran de Santa Rosa Maria. 

 Arte del idioma Maya. 



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