Transcriber’s Note

This book was originally published as a part of:

Powell, J. W.
1881 First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to theSecretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-’80. pp.205-245. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.

The table of contents and index included in this version of the book wasextracted from the complete volume.

A number of typographical errors have been maintainedin the current version of this book. They are markedand the corrected text is shown in the popup. A list of theseerrors is found at the end of this book.


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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION—BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY.
J. W. POWELL, DIRECTOR.


STUDIES
IN
CENTRAL AMERICAN PICTURE-WRITING.

BY

EDWARD S. HOLDEN,
PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS, U. S. NAVAL OBSERVATORY.


TABLE OF CONTENTS

List of illustrations206
Introductory207
Materials for the present investigation210
System of nomenclature211
In what order are the hieroglyphs read?221
The card catalogue of hieroglyphs223
Comparison of plates I and IV (Copan)224
Are the hieroglyphs of Copan and Palenque identical?227
Huitzilopochtli, Mexican god of war, etc.229
Tlaloc, or his Maya representative237
Cukulean or Quetzalcoatl239
Comparison of the signs of the Maya months243

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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