546 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
mother of the girls; 2, the girl of 13 years of age, who makes 
cakes and prepares articles of food; y, two cakes; 2, a bowl; aa, the 
ecomali; bb, a pot for boiling provisions in and two cakes. 
The fourth section of this plate represents how their parents employed 
and occupied a boy or girl of 14 years of age, the boy in going in a 
canoe to fish in the lakes, and the girl in the task of weaving a piece of 
cloth. Their allowance of food was two rolls. 
The fourteen points, cc, represent fourteen years; dd, two rolls; ee, 
the father of the boys; ff, the boy of 14 years of age, who goes out 
fishing with his canoe; gg, the mother of the girls; hh, two rolls; ii, 
the giri of 14 years, who is occupied in weaving; jj, the web and oceu- 
pation of weaving. 
The figures of Pl. Lx, here Pl. XXXvIIl, are in two sections. 
Those contained in the first section signify that the father, who had 
sons nearly grown up, carried them to the two houses represented in 
the plate; either to the house of the master, who taught and instructed 
the young men, or to the mezquita, accordingly as the lad was himself 
inclined, and committed him to the care of the superior Alfaqui or to 
the master of the boys, to be educated, which lads it was fit should 
have attained the age of 15. 
In this section @ is a youth of 15 years of age, whose father delivers 
him up to the superior Alfaqui, that he might receive him as an Alfaqui; 
b is the Tlamazqui, who is the superior Alfaqui; c, the mezquita, named 
Calmecac; d, the father of these two youths; e, a young man of 15, 
whose father delivers him up to the master that he might teach and 
instruct him; /, the teachecauh or master; g, the seminary where 
they educated and taught the young men, which was calied euincaeali; 
h, fifteen years. 
The second section of the plate signifies the laws and usages which 
they followed and observed in inarriages. The ceremony consisted in 
the female negotiator, who arranged the nuptials, carrying on her back 
on the first night of the wedding the betrothed woman, accompanied 
by four women with blazing torches of resinous fir, who attended to 
light her on the way; and having arrived at the house of the man to 
whom she was engaged, the parents of the betrothed man went out to 
receive her in the court of the house and conducted her to an apartment 
where the man expected her; and seating the betrothed couple on a 
mat on which were placed seats, near a hearth of fire, they took them 
and tied them to each other by their clothes and offered incense of copal 
to their gods. Two old men and two women afterward delivered a 
separate discourse to the newly married couple and set food before . 
them, which they presently ate; and after their repast was over, the 
two old men and women gave good advice to the married pair, telling 
them how they ought to conduct themselves and to live, and by what 
means they might pass their lives in tranquillity. 
The square inclosure, 7, is the apartment; j, the old man; k, the 
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