Transcriber’s Note
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.
The following less-common characters are found in this book: ă (a with breve), ɔ (open o),ħ (h with stroke), š (s with caron), ṭ (t with dot under). If they donot display properly, please try changing your font.
PAPERS
OF THE
PEABODY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY AND
ETHNOLOGY, HARVARD UNIVERSITY
VOL. IV.—No. 3.
ANIMAL FIGURES
IN THE
MAYA CODICES
BY
ALFRED M. TOZZER, Ph.D.
AND
GLOVER M. ALLEN, Ph.D.
Cambridge, Mass.
Published by the Museum
February, 1910
Salem Press:
The Salem Press Co., Salem Mass.
1910.
It has been thought desirable, for the advancement of the study of Mayahieroglyphs, that the interpretation of the conventionalized animalfigures, which so frequently occur in the Maya codices, should beundertaken. The Peabody Museum Committee on Central American Researchtherefore requested Dr. A. M. Tozzer to prepare a paper on the subject,and to secure the valuable cooperation of Dr. Glover M. Allen, azoologist familiar with the animals of Mexico and Central America, toaid in the identification of the various species of animals which undervarying forms are used in connection with the glyphs.
While it is possible that some of the determinations given in this papermay require further confirmation, it is evident that the combinedstudies of Dr. Tozzer and Dr. Allen cannot fail to be useful to studentsof the Maya hieroglyphic writing.
F. W. Putnam.
Harvard University,
August, 1909.
The vowels and consonants have their continental sounds with thefollowing exceptions:—
| ă | like u in hut |
| ai | like i in island |
| k | (Beltran’s c) ordinary palatal k |
| q |