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head, partly hanging cloAvn long behind, as Landa describes it, is 

 indeed not infrequently seen (compare «, figure 128, Codex Cor- 

 tesianus, page ?>?), above, and 7j, figure 128, same place, 36, below, with 

 c from the Yucatan collection). However, in most cases the head 

 ornament is much more elaborate. We constantly find, as here, the 

 hair bound up above on the head and surrounded with ornaments 



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Fk;. 128. Headdresses, from Maya codices and monuments. 



and feathers, while it hangs down long behind, intertwined with 

 feathers and ribljons. 



A headdress consisting of a sort of bow or knot is most common 

 in the manuscripts {d, Dresden codex, page 68, and e and /, Codex 

 Cortesianus, page 11). Strange to say, it does not occur elsewhere, 

 either among the reliefs or the clay figures; another striking pecul- 



