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A STUDY OF THE MA.NUSOEIPT TROANO. 



wash.^ The hand here figured I take to be simply a pictorial repre- 

 sentation. 



The characters in the right-hand compartment of the middle division 

 of the same plate, I think probably relate to the offerings of honey and 

 tortillas for the dead. 



AotaSng Co^X 



The character represented in Fig. 84, found so frequently on Plates P 

 to X* and elsewhere, may denote pieces of honey-comb, or a kind of drink 

 made of honey, as Brasseur says (note in Landa's Relacion), " honey that 

 has passed into the state of hydromel, which was their ordinary wine." 



' I follow, ill most c.asi'S, tlie interpretation fjiven by liniHSeiir in his Maya lexicon, and make no 

 attempt to give ol(Ii(|Ue forms, as niy knowledge of the Maya language i^s too limited for this. 



