245 



Lenox, James, 205 



Lenox Library, New York, 193, 205 



Leon, the city of, 7 



Life form, 64, 66, 74, 75, 78-80, 86, 87, 89, 



91, 102, 109-112, 124, 125, 136, 138, 139, 



141, 208; motive, 81, 104, 110; symbols, 



74, 75 

 Linen, 160 

 Lizard, 70, 101 

 Loin-cloth, 53, 163, 213 

 Lost color group, 46, 56, 66, 73, 75, 76, 102, 



103-120, 122-125, 150, 151, 212, 230 

 Lost color process, 104, 122, 124, 125,230,232 

 Lost color technique, 230 

 Lost color ware, 80, 104, 106, 110, 111, 113- 



116, 118-121, 128, 134, 151, 161, 164, 169 

 Lotus, 78, 154 

 Liiders, C. W., 192, 199, 201, 205, 220, 222 



Macanas, 2 



Macaw, 206 



Machete, 16 



Macuilxochitl-Xochipilli, 166 



Madrid, Museum of, 193 



Magnesia, oxide of, 146 



Man, 35, 36, 52, 75, 89, 170, 185, 204, 208, 



212, 216-218 

 Mantas, 49 



Maroon group, 46, 66, 97, 100, 101 

 Maroon ware, 100, 101 

 Marsh, Othniel C, 19, 26, 38 

 Martens, E. von (name misspelled in the 



text), 160 

 Martyr, Peter, 206 

 Masks, gold, 223, 224 

 Mathewson, C. H., 194 

 Matsya, an incarnation of Vishnu, 218 

 Mayan codices, 71, 184, 232 ; mythology, 



182, 184; picture writing, 66 

 Mazatlan, 57 



McNielJ. A., 12-14, 19,21, 26, 43,51, 96, 145, 150 

 McNiel collection, 41 

 Meagher, Thomas F., 8, 192 

 Mealing plate, 31 ; stones, 21, 26-30, 38 

 Meander, 107-109, 113, 118, 119 

 Mediterranean, 160 

 Menard, E., 14 

 Mercedes, 16, 17, 29, 35, 36, 60, 106, 141, 161, 



208, 209, 211, 220, 222, 223, 232 

 Meredith Howland collection, 203, 211 



Merritt, J. King, 8, 11, 13, 14, 21, 22, 26, 192, 193 



Mertens, Frau Alice, 200, 219 



Metal, 19, 68, 189-226 



Metal figurine, 199; frog, 68, 201; instru- 

 ments, 95; objects, 193, 197; pellet, 198, 

 200; technique, 23, 67 



Metallurgy, 231 



Metates,16, 19, 21, 26-35, 159, 167, 227, 228 



Metropolitan Museum, 200-204, 211 



Mexico, 15, 17, 30, 43, 212, 161, 163, 189, 201, 

 212, 226-228 



Mexican antiquities, 201; deities, 159; feather- 

 snake, 200; god, 183; Indians, 66; inter- 

 preter,!? ; picture writing, 126; table-land,57 



Mineral de Veraguas, 190 



Mines of Estrella, 190 ; Tisinga], 190 ; Veragua, 

 192 



Mingindo river, 224 



Minorca, fishermen of, 160 



Miravalles, Costa Rica, 40, 41 



Mississippi valley, scroll ornament in, 154 



Model, resin, 195; wax, 195 



Molar teeth, human, 14 



Monkey, 35, 36, 52, 75, 89, 91, 110, 122, 162, 

 170, 185, 208-210, 218, 231 



Monkey heads, 62 ; figurines, 232 



Monster, 82, 186, 231 



Monuments, stone, 43 



Moore, Clarence B., 226 



Mortar, 16, 35, 36 



Mortillet, Gabriel de, 34, 45 



Mosquito coast, 2 



Mt. Chiriqui, 96, 203 



Mt. Royal, Florida, 226 



Moves, dialect, 15 



Multiple motive, 156 



Munoz, Captain, 191 



Muois dialect, 15 



Murex brandariuslAnwe, 160; M.trunculus, 160 



Museum, British, 193, 201, 209, 214; Field 

 Chicago, 221, 223; European, 193; Ham- 

 burg, 193 ; American, Natural History, 57, 

 223 ; Imperial Natural History, Vienna, 218; 

 Madrid, 193; Metropolitan, 200-204, 211; 

 Peabody, of Harvard University, 151, 152, 

 154; Royal Ethnographical, Berlin, 200, 

 219, 226; San Jose, 209, 216, 224; U.S. 

 National, 22, 100, 151, 156, 160; University, 

 of Quito, 226; Yale, 22, 160 



MusicaHnstraments, 11, 165, 169, 177-188 



