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AN ANAI.YSIS OF THE 



Fig. 87. (*) Fig. 88. (+) Fig. 89. (t) 



Comparing the aljove series with the radicals we find that the first is evidently 

 intended for the head of an animal, and that this figure gradually assumes a more 

 snake-like expression until, in Fig. 92, we see an indubitable rattle appendage. That 

 all the signs of Fig. 81 are derived from reduction of similar figures to those 

 just given must of course he probable only. In our judgment it forms a probability 

 that lacks but one degree of proof, namely, that derived from a fixed chronological 

 status. This of course cannot be furnished. 



Fig. 93. (**) Fig. 94. (H) 



* Kingsborough Coll. (Borgian Codex.) (}) 

 ■|- Kingsborougli Coll. (Borgian Codex.) 

 :{; Kingsborovigli Coll. (Borgian Codex.) 



g Voy. Pittor. et Archseol. dans la Province d'Yucatan, etc. Waldeck, Paris, 18B8, pi. 18, 

 I From photograph of ruins at Monjas, Uxnial. 

 *i Khigsborough Coll. (Dresden Codex, Col. 57). 



** Six Months Residence and Travel in Mexico. W. Bullock, London, 1834, pi. 13. 

 ff Siiuier, Nicaragua, I. c, 52 (from Zipatero). 



(') In proof of the Crotalian significance of this form we add the caudal appendage : ^(5!^?^?'?^ 



