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Animal Figures in the Maya Codices

PLATE 24

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Plate 24
Plate 24

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Coppery-tailed Trogon or Quetzal (Pharomacrus mocinno)

1. Head-dress with crest feathers shown as knobs, Dresden 7c.

2. Head-dress, Dresden 13b.

3. Same, Dresden 16c.

4. Tro-Cortesianus 100b.

5. Tro-Cortesianus 70a.

6. Head-dress, Tro-Cortesianus 94c.

7. Nuttall 33.

8. Conventionalized tail as a head ornament, Dresden 20c.

9. Vaticanus 3773, 17.

10. Glyph, Palenque, Temple of the Sun (Maudslay, IV, Pl. 89, gl. O, 9).

11. Trogon descending on a sacrifice, Bologna 8.

12. Tro-Cortesianus 36b.

13. Glyph, Copan (Maudslay, I, Pl. 111, gl. 54).

14. Glyph apparently representing a trogon’s head, Dresden 20c.

15. Same, Dresden 9b.

16. Same, Dresden 3a.

17. Head, Nuttall 43.

18. Tro-Cortesianus 26c.

19. Figure with head ornament resembling a trogon glyph, Dresden 20c.

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