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Animal Figures in the Maya Codices

PLATE 25

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Plate 25
Plate 25

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Blue Macaw (Ara militaris)

1. Figure with macaw head and holding firebrands, Dresden 40b.

2. Head-dress, Dresden 16c.

3. Tro-Cortesianus 12a.

4. Glyph, Copan, Stela 11 (Maudslay, I, Pl. 112, gl. 12).

5. Same, Copan, Stela B (Maudslay, I, Pl. 38).

6. Glyph used in connection with fig. 1.

7. Glyph.

8. Stone carving of upper mandible and head, Copan, Stela B (Maudslay, I, Pl. 37).

9. Head, probably of a turtle, month sign Kayab, Quirigua, Stela A (Maudslay, II, Pl. 7, gl. 14).

10. Head, probably of a macaw, Copan, Altar Q (Maudslay, I, Pl. 93).

11. Tro-Cortesianus 37b.

12. Head, probably of a macaw, Copan, Stela A (Maudslay, I, Pl. 30, gl. 19).

13. Tro-Cortesianus 94c.

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