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Title: Commentary Upon the Maya-Tzental Perez Codex
with a Concluding Note Upon the Linguistic Problem of the Maya Glyphs

Author: William E. Gates

Release Date: June 22, 2008 [EBook #25878]

Language: English

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PAPERS
OF THE

PEABODY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY AND
ETHNOLOGY, HARVARD UNIVERSITY

VOL. VI.--No. 1

COMMENTARY
UPON THE MAYA-TZENTAL
PEREZ CODEX

WITH A CONCLUDING NOTE UPON THE
LINGUISTIC PROBLEM OF THE MAYA GLYPHS

BY

WILLIAM E. GATES

PROFESSOR IN SCHOOL OF ANTIQUITY, INTERNATIONAL THEOSOPHICAL
HEADQUARTERS, POINT LOMA, CALIFORNIA

CAMBRIDGE, MASS.
PUBLISHED BY THE MUSEUM
NOVEMBER, 1910

[Illustration]

THE ARYAN THEOSOPHICAL PRESS
Point Loma, California

NOTE

In presenting this Commentary on the Codex Perez to students of American
Archaeology, the Peabody Museum adds another paper to its series
relating to the study of the hieroglyphic writing of the ancient peoples
of Mexico and Central America.

The Museum is fortunate in adding to its collaborators Mr. William E.
Gates, of Point Loma, California, who for more than ten years has been
an