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interesting example is given in Codex Nuttall," where Mictlantecutli, “lord of the 
place of the slain,” shows the ribs, vertebrae, the bones of both lower extremities, 
of one upper arm, and of both fore-arms. Curiously enough, a peculiarity of most 
of the Mexican figures of the death-god is that to correspond with the double bones 
of the lower arm and the leg, the humerus of the upper arm and the femur of the 
thigh are shown as double bones also—a feature well brought out in the figure to 
which we have referred. | | 
The reader is referred to a few of very many representations in the codices, of 
the lower jaw and of skeletal extremities.? 
Етс. 148.— Vessel No. 11. Ridge north of Mound R. (Height 5.4 inches.) 
Holmes? shows a death's head design on a vessel from Mississippi. 
Vessel No. 10, a small, wide-mouthed water-bottle, lay with the scattered bones 
of a child, with which were two shell beads, each about an inch in length. 
Vessels Nos. 11 and 12 were together near a few scattered bones. The former, 
a wide-mouthed water-bottle (Fig. 148), has five depressions on the body, with each 
ҮР. 78, lower right-hand corner. 
з Codex Vaticanus B., pp. 75, 76. 
Codex Laud, Kingsborough AXE 
lodex Borgia, Loubat edition, Pl. "XXVL 
Codex Borgia, Kingsborough, III, pp. 59, 63, 65. 
Codex Cospiano, Loubat edition, PLIX X XE 
Codex de nest Mayer, Pl. III, XX XII. 
* Op. ей., Pl. LVI. 
