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iarity of the four Maya codices." There are otherwise, however, 

 many resembhmces in the forms of hair-dressing between the manu- 

 scripts and the figures in the collection. Thus the headdress from the 

 Dresden manuscrij)t on page 19 above, ^, is repeated exactly in a 

 figure of the collection ;'' /, front view ; k, side view. 



A headdress verj- common in the Dresden manuscript is shown in 

 Z, page 27, and 7n, page 28, below. Compare also g and A, figure 120, 

 and I and c, figure 123.' It has also an analogue in the Yucatan col- 

 lection; compare n and o and the often-mentioned figure of a priest 

 (plate XLV, number 5). These are only single instances, chosen at 

 random; the forms are, as we have said, so multifarious that but very 

 few obvious resemblances can be established. In the Yucatec reliefs 

 the headdresses usually have enormous feathers, which hang down 

 before and behind, showing a certain resemblance to man}' of the 

 representations in the manuscripts, which, however, lies rather in the 

 total effect than in separate details. The Palenque reliefs also show 

 similar feather ornaments, but far simpler and more in accordance 

 with reality than the Yucatec reliefs. 



AYe may also mention what was undoubtedly the headdress of a 

 Avarrior,'^ which we find in the Mexican manuscripts as well as in the 

 Maya codices and on the clay figures. In the first of these it takes the 

 form of a and 5, plate xi.vi (from the Mendoza codex) . Compare with 

 this, c (Dresden codex, page GO^ and the head from a figure in the 

 collection, d. 



The headdress of the women is generally simpler than that of the 

 men. The elaborate feather decoration is missing on them in the 

 manuscripts, and in its place we have the hair itself arranged in 

 long strands, which fall partly over the breast, partly over the back; 

 <? shows this arrangement of the hair that is peculiar to women, the 

 most distinctly recognizable one in the Dresden manuscript. 



Besides this, however, we have another form, in which the hair is 

 arranged on each side of the head in loops having the shape of the 

 figure 8. This arrangement of the hair occurs in all the Maya 

 manuscripts and on the clay images of the Yucatan collection. The 

 Mexican manuscripts also show us a similar puffing of the hair on 

 each side of the head, which Spanish authors mention as prevalent 



° See. however, the headdress so common in the Bodley codex, flg. 125. The Bodley 

 codex bears a strong resemblance to Codex Troano-Cortesianus, so far as the representa- 

 tions are concerned. 



'■It is the figure with the singular facial decoration that has already been mentioned 

 above. 



<• The similarity of this head covering with one common in the Egyptian representation, 

 that with the Ursus serpent, is startling, and yet it is entirely fortuitous. 



'' Compare in regard to this headdress in use among tlie Aztecs, the comprehensive 

 work : Das Prachtstiick altmexikanischer Federarbeit aus der Zcit Montezumas im Wiener 

 Museum, by Zelia Nuttall (in d. Abhandlungen u. Bericht. d. K. Zoill. u. Anthrop.-Ethuogr. 

 Museums, z. Dresden, n. 7, 1887). 



