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in ancient Mexico. Compare the Mexican female figure above, 6, 

 figure 124, also some Mexican clay images in the Berlin Museum, which 

 have the same style of hair-dressing as / and £/, plate xlvi (Troano 

 codex, page 24), h (Codex Cortesianus, page 35), / (Dresden codex, 

 page 16), from the Maya manuscripts, and lastly, the two styles of 

 wearing the hair of clay images in the Yucatan collection, represented 

 in /■ and plate xlv, number 2, 



Utensils and Kindred Objects 



In conclusion, we will select a few specimens from the numerous 

 representations of household utensils, weapons, vessels, and other 

 objects portrayed in connection with the human figure. Any closer 

 inquiry into these objects w^ould far exceed the limits of the pre-ent 

 article. The weapons, which are not uncommon in the codices, have 

 many points of resemblance with those represented in the Mexican 

 manuscripts; none are apparently to be found among the clay figures. 

 The Mexican sword with obsidian splinters (maquahuitl) was also 

 used in Yucatan, together with the small ax, which Landa describes, 

 and of which he furnishes an illustration." The sword is represented 

 on a relief at Kabali. 



The clay vessels found in the Yucatan collection are of the same 

 general shape as those in the Maya codices. Compare the specimens 

 «, c, and e^ plate xlvii (from the Dresden codex), with ?>, </, and / 

 (from the Yucatan collection). 



So, too, a peculiar kind of tall, slender vessel, which usually appears 

 in the manuscripts in connection with sacrificial rites (see particu- 

 larly Dresden codex, pages 25 to 28), is found in its characteristic 

 form in the Yucatan collection. Compare (/ (from the Dresden codex, 

 pages 20 and 27; Codex Cortesianus, pages G*, 7*, 40, and elsewhere) 

 with the vessels, //, from the collection, which may therefore be re- 

 garded with certainty as sacrificial vessels. 



Fans, which are not uncommon in the Mexican codices, occur also 

 in the Maya manuscripts, and a clay image in the Yucatan collection 

 holds a similar object in its hand, i (compare the Mexican fan, /.•). 

 Similar forms are found in the Maya manuscripts (see 7, from the 

 Dresden codex, pages 25 to 28, above, and m, from the Troano codex, 

 page 35, above). Another figure in the Yucatan collection has an 

 object in the left hand of the shape represented in n. The repre- 

 sentations of women weaving in the Troano codex, i^age 11*, show 

 us that this article is a weaver's shuttle. There it has the form of 

 figure 129.'' 



" It has the same shape as in the manuscripts. 



'■ T'nder tiiis lieadint; also belongs tlK^ Mexican spear thrower, the atlatl, found in vari- 

 ous forms in the codices, wliich recently has been found in a variety of forms in the 

 codices by Doctor Seler and Mrs Nuttall, who is about to issue a searching study of the 

 subject as one of the publications of the Peabody Museum. 



