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Animal Figures in the Maya Codices

PLATE 26

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Plate 26
Plate 26

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Parrots, Turkeys

1. Macaw as a head-dress, Tro-Cortesianus 26c.

2. Bird of sacrifice, doubtless an Ocellated Turkey (Agriocharis) Dresden 25c. (Compare also Dresden 26c 27c, 28c.)

3. Head-dress, probably a macaw, Copan, Altar Q (Maudslay, I, Pl. 92).

4. Possibly a parrot (Amazona), Nuttall 4.

5. Head-dress, head of a macaw, Tro-Cortesianus 89a.

6. Head-dress, possibly representing a parrot, Dresden 12b.

7. Possibly a parrot (Amazona), Nuttall 71.

8. Glyph representing a macaw’s head, Tikal, Temple C (Maudslay, III, Pl. 78).

9. Parrot-like head-dress, Dresden 19a.

10. Possibly a macaw, Tro-Cortesianus 37b.

11. Parrot-like head-dress, Dresden 11b.

12. Bird of sacrifice, probably an Ocellated Turkey or a Chachalaca, Nuttall 22.

13. Parrot-like head-dress, Dresden 11a.

14. Head of Ocellated Turkey or a Chachalaca, Nuttall 5.

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