SCHELLUAS] NECKLACES, COLLARS, AND EAR ORNAMENTS G15 



This kind of ornament Avas worn indiscriminately by men and 

 women. The badges of certain priests or officials seem sometimes to 

 have been used upon the tassels, as in the Dresden codex we nnd one 

 on the figure of the death god, or his priestly representative, with the 

 sign of death (ry, figure 115, cimi ; Dresden codex, pages 9, above, 10, 

 above, and 15, middle). 



In the Yucatan collection we have on various images the forms 

 shown in <?, r/, and e, figure 125, of which the last is a particularly 

 elaborate specimen, shoAving a medal similar to those in the manu- 

 scripts. 



Instead of the chain we sometimes find (very seldom in the manu- 

 scripts) a sort of ribbon to which a tassel or medal is attached, as 

 in fj (Dresden codex, page 28, above). 



The same thing occurs in the figures in the collection (see //, /, /■). 



Still greater j)oints of resemblance occur in the ear ornaments, 

 which often seem to have been combined with the necklaces. In the 

 manuscripts, as on the Yucatec clay figures, a ring-shaped ornament 

 is the rule. '\^'liile among the latter it is often ver^^ simple (see m 

 and vd), in the codices it usually assumes a more complicated form. 

 Almost all the figures show either one or the other of the tsvo forms, 

 which are given in a and &, or in c, d^ and c, figure 120. The former 

 is the rule in the Codex Troano-Cortesianus,<^ the latter in the Dresden 

 codex. The latter form is not infrequently directly combined with 

 the necklace and occurs after the same fashion on the clay figures : 

 certainly a very noteworthy fact, for these neck ornaments are entirely 

 wanting in the Mexican manuscripts. Compare the example from 

 the collection (/', figure 12G). The resemblance is evident and indu- 

 bitable. 



While in the Mexican codices collars prevail, in the Maya manu- 

 scripts, as we have said, necklaces are predominant. But collars 

 occur also, in fact feather collars of the selfsame form that we find 

 on the often-mentioned figure of a priest from the Yucatan collection 

 (plate XLV, number 5), a stiff round collar of feathers standing out 

 from the neck (see /^ figure 126, Codex Cortesianus, page 32, above; 

 ^, Dresden codex, page 20, above; A*, Troano codex, page 34; Codex 

 Peresianus, page 15, and others having the form of this ornament on 

 the figure of the priest, l^'). Similar collars are very frequently 

 found in the Maya codices on the figure of the death god, and where 

 such a collar occurs the necklace found everywhere else is absent. 



As a general thing these collars are infrequent. The}' seem to have 

 been no everyday article of attire. A few variations occur in the 

 manuscripts, for instance, in m (Dresden codex, page 10, below) and n 

 (Troano codex, page 31, middle). 



° It also appears on the heads in the irlvpliic writing, as, for instance, in the inscrip- 

 tion on a pottery vessel in tlie Yucatan collection {(j. fls. 126). 



* Strange to say. this figure wears no ear ornament. The collar is half broken off. 



