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Animal Figures in the Maya Codices

PLATE 38

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Plate 38
Plate 38

MAMMALIA

Leaf-nosed Bat (Vampyrus spectrum or Phyllostomus hastatus panamensis)

1. Glyph, Chichen Itza, Akat ’Cib (Maudslay, III, Pl. 19.)

2. Glyph, Copan (Maudslay, I, Pl. 8).

3. Bat god, drawn as glyph, Copan, Stela D (Maudslay, I, Pl. 48).

4. Glyph, Copan (Maudslay, I, Pl. 8).

5. Glyph, Palenque, Temple of the Inscriptions (Maudslay, IV, Pl. 60, gl. Q 1).

6. Glyph, Tikal (Maudslay III, Pl. 74, gl. 41).

7. Bat gad used as decoration on pottery, Chama (Dieseldorff, 1904).

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