[Contributions to North American ethnology, volume 5 (1882)
Rau, Charles, 1826-1887, Fletcher, Robert, 1823-1912, Thomas, Cyrus, 1825-1910 · Washington : Government Printing Office · leaf 432
A STUDY OF THE MANUSOEIPT TEOANO. 128 baldachin or place in wliicli their idols were seated in their temples. Some- thing similar is also found elsewhere in the same work. Houses, cabins, and other buildings, even temples in which their idols … ^"^- ^' are derived, signifies "a ^''°- ^'^■ group of things united or congregated one upon another,'' but without refer- ence to the material of which they are composed. It is true that in this house we see the figure of a bee, and might therefore suppose it represents the place where the hives…
Sculpture, Primitive · Indians of North America -- Medicine · Trephining · Manuscripts, Maya · Archaeology · Indian art -- North America · Maya calendar · Mayan languages -- Writing
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