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Animal Figures in the Maya Codices

PLATE 13

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Plate 13.
Plate 13.

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Crocodile (Crocodilus)

1. Glyph of the Nahua day sign, Cipactli, Nuttall 1.

2. Crocodile represented by head and limb, Nuttall 36.

3. Same as fig. 1, Nuttall 1.

4. Same as fig. 1, Nuttall 4.

5. Same as fig. 1, Nuttall 9.

6. Same as fig. 1, Nuttall 47.

7. Same as fig. 1, Nuttall 1.

8. Nuttall 75.

9. Head of lizard or possibly crocodile used as a Uinal glyph, Palenque, Temple of the Foliated Cross (Maudslay, IV, Pl. 82, gl. 6).

10. Head of crocodile, Dresden 52b.

11. Head, possibly of a crocodile, Palenque, Temple of the Foliated Cross (Maudslay, IV, Pl. 82, gl. 0, 4).

12. Conventionalized head of a crocodile, Dresden 53b.

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