Amérique Centrale et du Mexique, des antiquités, des systèmes de calendrier et d'histoire ; . st figure prostré, c'est à dire, celle qui fartheston le droit, que les Aztèques hy désigné le hiéroglyphe Aztlan est sacrifier, isQuilaztli. c'est, la déesse terre, reconnaissable par la couleur noire sur la bouche.Next suivre ses frères, l'Mimixcoua hieroglyphically désigné, la première par le pic-ture d'un mimitzin, poisson, l'autre par l'hiéroglyphe turquoise (MOSAIC) et smaUindividual xiuhnel, morceaux de turquoise. Les trois sont habillés comme des Chichimèques de peaux. 320 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY (BULL. 28 Mo

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Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . st prostrate figure, that is, the one lying fartheston the right, whom the Aztec designated hy the hieroglyph Aztlan is sacrificing, isQuilaztli. that is, the earth goddess, recognizable by the black color about the mouth.Next follow her brothers, the Mimixcoua, the first designated hieroglyphically by the pic-ture of a fish, mimitzin, the other by the hieroglyph turquoise (mosaic) and smaUindividual pieces of turquoise, xiuhnel. The three are dressed as Chichimecs in skins. 320 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 28 most of these cases with the white or red and Avhite striped paint-ing of the body. It is fairly stereotyped as to form and extension;but a variation exists, inasmuch as in one of the manuscripts (Borgiancodex ) there is only a plain patch of black paint, while in the others(Codex Telleriano-Remensis, Tonalamatl of the Aubin collection, Sahagun manuscript) this black surface has a border of little circles.In the Aztec Sahagun manuscript, this painting of the face is desig-. h Ftg. 80. Procession and sacrifice, from the Sahagun manuscript and the Borgian codex. nated as the face-cage marking and the face-star marking whichis called darkness (tlayoualli) The expression cage markingrefers, it would seem, to the stripes on the face. It is therefore evi-dent that the technical designation star marking, darkness refersto the design resembling a black domino. This nomenclature notonly explains the nature of the thing itself, but is also a proof that allthe intricate and manifold symbols which we find as attributes of thepersonages of the Mexican Olympus were no thoughtless repetitions SELEU] EXPLANATION OP WALL PAINTINGS 321 of adopted forms, but signs purposely employed to enable the be-holder to recoGnize the nature of the personage represented withoutthe possibility of error; In the case before us there has simply beendrawn on the face of the deity the hieroglyph night as we havelea

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