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PAPERS
OF THE
PEABODY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY
AND ETHNOLOGY, HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Vol. IV.—No. 1
REPRESENTATION OF DEITIES
OF THE
MAYA MANUSCRIPTS
BY
DR. PAUL SCHELLHAS
SECOND EDITION, REVISED
WITH 1 PLATE OF FIGURES AND 65 TEXT ILLUSTRATIONS
TRANSLATED BY
Miss Selma Wesselhoeft and
Miss A. M. Parker
Translation revised by the Author
Cambridge, Mass.
Published by the Museum
December, 1904.
| Preface | 5 |
| The Material of the Manuscripts. | 7 |
| I. Representations of Gods. | 10 |
| II. Mythological Animals. | 41 |
| Summary. | 46 |
In order to make more widely known and more easily accessible to Americanstudents the results of important researches on the Maya hieroglyphs,printed in the German language, the Peabody Museum Committee on CentralAmerican Research proposes to publish translations of certain paperswhich are not too lengthy or too extensively illustrated. The presentpaper by one of the most distinguished scholars in this field is thefirst of the series.
F. W. Putnam.
Harvard University
September, 1904.