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In Figures 93 and 04 (examples of a common variety in Aztec remains), we 

 see the carves of the open jaw traced npon the side of a solid mass. There can be 

 no reasonable objection to the conclusion that there is a close resemblance between 

 Figure 93 of these series and the second of the radicals marked E, or between radical 

 D and Fig. 94. 



It is also more than suggestive that the apparently arbitrary design and others 



Fig. 95. 



found among an embarrassing fullness of illustration in the Borgian Codex (Fig. 

 95), represents the profile head of the serpent with the mouth partially closed. And 

 may not the following figures have been suggested to a people who have been thor- 

 oughly acquainted with the profile lines already given? 



Fig. 93. (*) Fig. 97. (t) . Fig. 98. (t) Fig. 99. (§) Fig. 100. (||) 



Symmetrical Snake Ornament, from Squier's Ancient Mon. of North America, 

 a, lower jaw ; b, upper jaw ; c, eye ; d, rattle. 



Kingsborougli Coll. (Tellerian Codex.) 

 I From portion of elaborate full-faced human head, Stephens, I, 1843, 170. 

 I Kingsborougli Coll. (Borgian Codex,) p. 7 (human hand). 

 § Stephens, I. c, I, 171 (Ai*chitectural Ornament). 



Kingsborougli Coll. (Borgian Codex), p. 12 (pattern along a border). 

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