Guide to the Maudslay Collection of Maya Sculptures (casts and Originals) from Central America: With 8 Plates, 20 Illustrations and a Map

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Page 41 - It is difficult to see what else this can typify than the ripple, born both of wind and water, the aspect of which suggests feathers, and the motion a serpent.
Page 6 - ... Republic of Guatemala, and the northern portion of the Republic of Honduras. Maya speech extended farther ; to the north it prevailed among the Totonac population of the Mexican province of Vera Cruz, and, in even purer form, among the Huaxtec of the Panuco Valley. But the entire absence, in the Totonac and Huaxtec areas, of monuments bearing inscriptions in the characteristic Maya hieroglyphs provides evidence that these peoples played no part in the great cultural development which is sketched...
Page 29 - From archaeological evidence it would appear that Maya culture spread by way of Oaxaca up to the Valley of Mexico. Here, fostered by the Toltec, it took root and flourished with such vigour that, at a still later period, it had a profound influence on the arts and crafts of the Totonac of Vera Cruz...
Page 16 - Maya time-count, it must be remembered, the unit was the single day, and any complex numeral represented a sum of days grouped in periods corresponding to the numerical system above described. The...
Page 76 - The inscription on this slab is of interest for more than one reason. In the first place, it is longer than any of those described previously.
Page 10 - ... calendar questions, well calculated to deter the inquiring visitor to the gallery. We should hesitate to say that he adopts Goodman in whole, but he mentions him second among the four pioneer scholars who laid the foundation of the study of the Maya script. "These monumental inscriptions," he says, "were first given to the world with scientific accuracy by Maudslay, and in numbers sufficient to render possible the comparative method of criticism.
Page 24 - ... for the simple numerals were still in use at the Conquest. The establishment of the face-numeral series is perhaps the most important single result of Maudslay's enterprise. There is a third set of "full-figure" numerals which occur at Quirigua and Copan in important inscriptions, which are said to differ from the facenumerals only in the fact that the heads, which are the significant element, have bodies attached. It will be sufficient here to refer to the last column of the plate which we take...
Page 42 - For the benefit of those who may wish to make a further study of the game, the following bibliography will be helpful : S.
Page 46 - MM. Genet and Chelbatz substantially agree with their countryman, but place Nonoual in Acallan, west of the Laguna de Terminos. Mr. TA Joyce, on the other hand, finds it " at present unidentified, but almost certainly somewhere in the Central Maya area.
Page 28 - Consequently successive Katuns terminate with the day-sign Ahau accompanied by a numeral less by two than the preceding.

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