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AN ANALYSIS OF THE 



or not, as we have represented. So the oblique line is suggestive of the profile, 

 although it may be isolated. But the vertical line of the nose needs but to be pro- 

 duced to cross the horizontal line of the teeth to give a radical notion of the most 

 conspicuous facial lines ; and thus serving as a model to the profile, which probably 

 came later, and produced from the single natural line of the profile an artificial com- 

 plement crossing it at the centre. 



That the line drawn from the top of the occiput to the mouth is a true line of the 

 profile can readily be seen l^y producing the corner of the mouth. The natural direc- 

 tion of the angle, as we have already seen, is upward and backward. Archaic types 

 tend to emphasize this elevation, and primitive art to notably exaggerate it. Witness, 

 for example, such variants as the following from the Troano Manuscript : (Fig. 140.) 



Fio-. 140. 



(*) (t) 



J 



Let us suppose that in the first outline of this group the line had been extended 

 to the crown we would have had the of the Landa Alphabet and the Dresden 



Codex. 



The architectural pi'ofile head, composed for the most part of peripheral exag- 

 gerations, is given with the following figures : 



Fig. 141. {\) 



Fig. 142. (§) 



Fig. 143. (II) 



Fig. 144. (TI) 



Fig. 145, (-■*) 



Fig. 146. (ft) 



* Troano Manuscript, 

 t Ibid. 



X Trocano Manuscript, pi. 23. 



§ From Casa del Cober Nader, Gather wood, I. c. 



II Ibid. 



TT Stephens, Yucatan, 1849, II, 292. 

 Kingsborough Coll. (Dupaix.) 



Human profiles from Aztec (glyptic) design. 



