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The Maya Indians of Southern Yucatan and Northern British Honduras

Note 33 — DESCRIPTION OF MOUNDS

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"Tenian por costumbre averrarse los dientes dexandolos como diente de sierra y esto tenían por galanteria, y hazian este officio viejas, limandolos con ciertas piedras y agua."—Landa, op. cit., p. 182. Similarly filed teeth have been discovered at Copan and in caves at Loltun. See Joyce, Mexican Archæology, p. 294.

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