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MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA 



Face numerals, Mayan inscriptions, 

 106. 



Fauna, Mexico and Central America, 

 19-20. 



Feast, in connection with planet 

 Venus, 216; of the twelfth 

 month, 214-215. 



Feasts, Aztecan, 212-216; Sumo, 41. 



Feather mosaics, Aztecan, 220; 

 Tarascan, 221. 



Fibers, 228. 



Figurines, archaic, 51-53; archaic, 

 Isthmian region, 59, 60; archaic, 

 from Salvador, 52; clay, transi- 

 tion period, 69; female, distribu- 

 tion of, 54, 57, 63-64; pottery, 

 Aztecan, 219; pottery, San Juan 

 Teotihuacan, 161-162. 



Filigree, modern Mexican work, 219. 



Flageolets, Aztecan, 217. 



Flora, Mexico and Central America, 

 20-21. 



Flores, 28. 



Flying facade, on Mayan buildings, 

 77. 



Food plants, most widely distributed 

 in the New World, 48; cultivated 

 by American Indians, 228. 



Frescoes, Mitla, 148-149. 



Frontier cities, of the northwest, 165- 

 169. 



Funerary urns, Zapotecan, 144; also 

 frontispiece. 



Games, ceremonial, Toltecan, 158. 



Genealogical table, Mexican, 208. 



Genealogies, Aztecan, 189-190. 



Geography, Mexico and Central 

 America, 13-21. 



Geology, Mexico and Central Amer- 

 ica, 19. 



( rladiator stones, 198. 



Glaze, on modern Mexican pottery. 

 37. 



Glyphs, introducing, 107; period, 

 Mayan, 106, 107; supplemen- 

 tary series, 111. 



God houses, Huichol, 36. 



God of War, Mayan, 96. 



God's eyes, Huichol, 36. 



Gods, Aztecan, 201, 203, 205, 209; 

 beast, Mayan representation of, 

 92; in Dresden Codex, 94 

 Mayan, 80, 83, 85, 91, 92-96, 123 

 Mexican, 54, 205, 207, 208, 209 

 represented in pottery from San 

 Juan Teotihuacan, 161-162. 



Gold work, ancient, Isthmian region, 

 64; Aztecan, 219; in cruciform 

 tombs, 149; Isthmian, 177-179; 

 Mayan, 82; Zapotecan, 145. 



Gourd vessels, Tarascan, 221. 



Government, Aztecan, 188, 191; 

 theocratic, of the Mayas, 86. 



Graves, Isthmian, gold objects found 

 in, 178, 179. 



Great Ball Court, Chichen Itza, 136, 

 158. 



Great Mound, Copan, 133. 



Great Period, Mayan history, 133- 

 134. 



Grooving, in archaic figurines, 52. 



Groundplans, Toltecan buildings, 

 158; Yaxchilan temples, 70. 



Guatuso, 42. 



Gums, 228. 



Haab, defined, 108. 



Hair, Indians of Mexico and Central 



America, 42. 

 Headdresses, shown in archaic 



figurines, 51, 53. 

 Hieroglyphs, Aztecan, of precious 



stones, 201 ; containing phonetic 



