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Title: Bulletin
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Subjects: Ethnology
Publisher: Washington : G.P.O.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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9 AHAU i^ Fig. 16. The day signs i n the inscripti The glyphs for these twenty days are shown in figures 16 and 17.The forms in figure 16 arc from the inscriptions and those in figure17 from the codices. In several cases variants arc given to facilitateidentification. A study of the glyphs in these two figures shows onthe whole a fairly close similarity between the forms for the same MORLET) INTRODUCTION TO STUDY OF MAYA HIEROGLYPHS 39 day in each. The sign for the first day, Imix, is practically identicalin both. Compare figure 16, a and h, with figure 17, a and 6. Theusual form for the day Ik in the inscriptions (see fig. 16, c), however,
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EZNAB AHAU Fig. 17. The day signs in the codices. is unlike the glyph for the same day in the codices (fig. 17, c, d).The forms for Akbal and Kan are practically the same m each (see fig.16, d, e, and/, and fig. 17, e and/, respectively). The day Chicchan,figure 16, g, occurs rarely in the inscriptions; when present, it takes the 40 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY fBrLL. 57 form of a grotesque head. In the codices the common form for thisday is very different (fig. 17, g). The head variant, however (fig,17, h), shows a sUghtly closer sunilarity to the form from the inscrip-tions. The forms in both figure 16, 7i, i, and figure 17, i, j, for theday Cimi show little resemblance to each other. Although figure 17,i, represents the common form in the codices, the variant in j moreclosely resembles the form in figure 16, Ji, i. The day Manik is prac-tically the same in both (see figs. 16, j, and 17, Tc), as is also Lamat(figs. 16, Tc, I, and 17, Z, m). The day Muluc occurs rarely in theinscript

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