ANIMAL FIGURES IN THE MAYA CODICES 367 



to, suggests a monkey, though it cannot be surely identified. 

 A pottery whistle from the Uloa Valley (text fig. 15) shows 

 two monkeys standing side by side with a posterior extension 

 for the mouth piece. Their heads are shaped as in other 

 representations of this monkey with a distinct cap or bonnet 

 and facial discs. A pottery stamp from the same locality 

 shows a monkey with a long tail (Gordon, 1898, PL 11, fig. f). 

 It recalls the drawings of monkeys given by Strebel (1899,. 

 Pis. 1-4). 



In the Nuttall Codex are numerous heads and a few other 

 figures of a monkey, which from the erect hair of the crown, 

 curling tail, and distinctly indicated facial area must be the 

 common bonneted or capuchin monkey of Central America. 

 This species does not occur in Yucatan. What is undoubtedly 

 the same animal is shown as a head glyph in PL 39, fig. 8, 

 from the Aubin manuscript. The identifications of the head- 

 forming glyphs in the Nuttall and the Aubin manuscripts 



Figs. '16, 17, 18, 19. 

 GLYPHS FOR MAYA DAY CHUEN. 



are certainly correct as the Nahua day sign {OgomatU) means?, 

 ape. 



Text figs. 16-19, show some of the signs for the day Chuen 

 from the Maya codices. This is the day corresponding to th& 

 day Ogomath of the Nahuas. There is little resembHng an 

 ape in the Maya signs although it has been remarked that the 

 sign may show the open jaws and teeth of this animal. 



Forstemann (1897) as noted by Schellhas (1904, p. 21) 

 alludes to the fact that the figure of god C, which occurs also 

 in the sign for the north, in the tonalamatl in Dresden 4a-10a 

 occurs in the day Chuen of the Maya calendar, and this corre-- 



