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Identifier: bulletin571915smit (find matches)
Title: Bulletin
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Subjects: Ethnology
Publisher: Washington : G.P.O.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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d e f 9 h i . KAYAB CUMHU • UAYEB Fig. 19. The month signs in the inscriptions. only sign for Xul m the inscriptions (fig. 19, i, j) bears very littleresemblance to the common form for this month in the codices (fig.20, g), though it is not unlike the variant in h, figure 20. The essen-tial characteristic seems to be the familiar ear and the small mouth,shown in the inscription as an oval and in the codices as a hook sur-rounded with dots. 43508°—Bull. 57—15 4 50 BUEEAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY (BULL. 57 The sign for the month Yaxkin is identical in both figures 19, Ic, I,and 20, i, j. The sign for the month Mol in figures 19, m, n, and 20, kexliibits the same close similarity. The forms for the month Chen
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CUMHU Fig. 20. The month signs in the codices. UAYEB in figures 19, o, p, and 20, I, m, on the other hand, bear only a slightresemblance to each other. The forms for the months Yax (figs. 19,q, r, and 20, n), Zac (figs. 19, s, t, and 20, o), and Ceh (figs. 19, u, v, and MORLEY) INTRODUCTION TO STUDY OF MAYA HIEROGLYPHS 51 20, p) are again identical in each case. Tlie signs for the next month,Mac, however, are entirely dissimilar, the form commonly found inthe inscriptions (fig. 19, w) bearing absolutely no resemblance to thatshown in figure 20, q, r, the only form for this month in the codices.The very unusual variant (fig. 19, x), from Stela 25 at Piedras Negrasis perhaps a trifle nearer the form found in the codices. The flat-tened oval in the main part of the variant is somewhat like the upperpart of the glyph in figure 20, q. The essential element of the glyph forthe month Mac, so far as the inscriptions are concerned, is the element^Q^ (*) found as the superfix in both w and x, f

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