Mexican and Central American Antiquities, Calendar Systems, and History: Twenty-four Papers

U.S. Government Printing Office, 1904 - Aztec calendar - 682 pages

ILLUSTRATIONS Page PLATE I Map of Yucatan	5

Ancient Mexican feather ornaments by Eduard Seler	57

Antiquities of Guatemala by Eduard Seler	75

Alexander von Humboldts picture manuscripts in the Royal Library at Berlin	123

CONTENTS Page Preface	127

Fragment I plates 1v	128

Fragment II plate v1	154

and IV plates vir and VIII	176

Interior court of Palace II Mitla	268

Interior of a room of Palace II Mitla	272

Zapotec priesthood and ceremonials	275

Relief designs from the walls at Mitla	276

Deities and religious conceptions of the Zapotecs	284

Pottery from a tomb at Zaachilla	296

Pottery fragments from Zaachilla and Cuilapa	300

Explanation of the wall paintings	306

Mexican paintingHumboldt fragment IV	185

Mexican paintingHumboldt fragment V	188

Fragment V plate Ix	188

Mexican paintingHumboldt fragment VI	190

Fragment VI plate x	195

Mexican paintingHumboldt fragment VII	196

Fragment VII plate x1	198

Mexican paintingHumboldt fragment VIII	200

Mexican paintingHumboldt fragment IX 208	208

Fragments IX plate x X XI and XII plates XIII XIV A and B xv	209

Mexican paintingHumboldt fragment X	210

Mexican paintingHumboldt fragment XI	212

Mexican paintingHumboldt fragment XII	214

Mexican paintingHumboldt fragment XIII	216

Mexican paintingHumboldt fragment XIV	218

Mexican paintingHumboldt fragment XV	221

Mexican paintingHumboldt fragment XVI	227

Fragment XVI plate x1x	228

The bat god of the Maya race by Eduard Seler	231

The wall paintings of Mitla by Eduard Seler	243

Description of Mitla	247

Plan of Mitla ruins Oaxaca	250

Ground plan of Palace I Mitla	252

Sketch of the fa�ades on the north and south sides of the adjoin ing court Ialace I Mitla	256

The ancient Zapotec country	256

Oro View of Palace II Mitla	257

XY A second view of Palace II Mitla	262

Unity of Mexican and Central American civilization	262

AVII Front of Palace II Mitla	264

Wall paintings at Mitla 313	322

The significance of the Maya calendar for historic chronology by Eduard Seler	325

The temple pyramid of Tepoztlan by Eduard Seler	339

Plan of the temple Pyramid of Tepoxtlan	345

The Venus period in the Borgian codex group by Eduard Seler	353

Aids to the deciphering of the Maya manuscripts by E F�rstemann	397

to 64 and 69 to 73 Dresden codex	409

Tortoise and snail in Maya literature	423

of the Dresden Maya manuscript	431

to 73 and 51 to 58 Dresden codex	445

Pages 31a to 32a Dresden codex	455

The series of numbers on pages 51 to 58 Dresden codex	463

Maya chronology by E F�rstemann	473

Time periods of the Mayas by E F�rstemann	489

Maya hieroglyphs by E F�rstemann	499

The Central American calendar by E F�rstemann	515

The Pleiades by E F�rstemann	521

Recent Maya investigations by E F�rstemann	535

The inscription on the Cross of Palenque by E F�rstemann	543

The Tablet of the Cross Palenque	543

The day gods of the Mayas by E F�rstemann	557

From the Temple of Inscriptions at Palenque by E F�rstemann	573

Three inscriptions of Palenque by E F�rstemann	583

Comparative studies in the field of Maya antiquities by Paul Schellhas	591

The independent states of Yucatan by Carl Sapper	623

Two vases from Chama by E P Dieseldorff Eduard Seler and E F�rstemann	634

Page	639

The vase of Chama by E F�rstemann___	647

A clay vessel with a picture of a vampireheaded deity by E P Dieseldorff	665

Title	Mexican and Central American Antiquities, Calendar Systems, and History: Twenty-four Papers Issue 28 of Bulletin (Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology)
Authors	Charles Pickering Bowditch, Eduard Seler
Translated by	Charles Pickering Bowditch
Publisher	U.S. Government Printing Office, 1904
Original from	the University of Michigan
Digitized	Sep 6, 2005
Length	682 pages

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