Note 65 — III. The Pictorial Elements.

See numerous examples in Prof. Cyrus Thomas’s suggestive monograph, “Notes on certain Maya and Mexican Manuscripts,” in the third annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology (Washington, 1884). Mr. Francis Parry, in an article entitled “The Sacred Symbols and Numbers of Aboriginal America,” in Bull. of the Amer. Geog. Soc., 1894, classes it as a “sun symbol;” but in this, as in most of his identifications, I find myself unable to agree with him.