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figures, that iu all their leailiug features the desigus are suggestive 

 ol" Mexican or Central American work; yet a close iuspectiou brings 

 to liglit one or two features which are anomalies in Mexican or Central 

 American designs; as, for example, in PI. xvii and Fig. 18G, where the 

 wings are represented as rising from the back of the shoulders. 

 Although we can find niimerons figures of winged individuals in 

 Mexican designs (they are unknown in Central American), they always 

 carry with them the idea that tlie individual is partly or completely 

 clothed in the skin of the bird. This is partly carried out in the cop- 

 per plate, as is seen by the bird bill over the head; the eye being that 



Fl(i. ISO. — Engra'\e4l sliell, nnniinl c, Ktowiili group. 



of the bird and not of the man. But when the wings are observed it 

 is at once seen that the artist had in mind the angel figure with wings 

 rising from the back of the shoulders — an idea wholly foreign to Mexi- 

 can art. 



Another fact worthy of note in regard to the two chief plates repre- 

 senting human figures is that there is a combination of Central Ameri- 

 can and Mexican designs; the graceful limbs and the ornaments of the 

 arms, legs, waist, and the headdress are Central American, while the 

 rest, with the exception possibly of what is carried iu the right hand, 

 is Mexican. 



