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Title: Animal Figures in the Maya Codices

Author: Alfred M. Tozzer and Glover M. Allen

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PAPERS
OF THE
PEABODY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY AND
ETHNOLOGY, HARVARD UNIVERSITY

VOL. IV.--No. 3.

ANIMAL FIGURES
IN THE
MAYA CODICES

BY

ALFRED M. TOZZER, PH.D.
AND
GLOVER M. ALLEN, PH.D.

CAMBRIDGE, MASS.
PUBLISHED BY THE MUSEUM
FEBRUARY, 1910

Salem Press:
THE SALEM PRESS CO., SALEM MASS.
1910.

NOTE

It has been thought desirable, for the advancement of the study of Maya
hieroglyphs, that the interpretation of the conventionalized animal
figures, which so frequently occur in the Maya codices, should be
undertaken. The Peabody Museum Committee on Central American Research
therefore requested Dr. A. M. Tozzer to prepare a paper on the subject,
and to secure the valuable cooperation of Dr. Glover M. Allen, a
zoologist familiar with the animals of Mexico and Cen