Note 118 — IV. The Graphic Elements.

Mr. Marshall H. Saville, in a paper published in the Journal of American Folk-lore, September, 1894, and stated to have been read before the American Association the preceding month, entitled “A Comparative Study of the Graven Glyphs of Copan and Quirigua,” observes of the design of the paxche that it “is probably a drum.” No expression to this effect was in the paper as read before the Association, and in the following number of the Journal Mr. Saville concedes that I was the first to offer this identification.