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Biologia Centrali-Americana, or, Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America (1889)

Maudslay, Alfred Percival, 1850-1931, Goodman, J. T, Godman, Frederick Du Cane, 1834-1919, Salvin, Osbert, 1835-1898, Greve, W., lithographer, Griggs, William, 1832-1911, Hunter, Ada, Purkiss, W., lithographer, Shawe, W, Sweet, H. N. (Henry N.) · London : Published for the editors by R.H. Porter ... and Dulau & Co. · leaf 70

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ds in a serpentshead with disks and tassels attached to it. There now remains to be mentioned that part of the design (coloured red) whichextends from the tongue of the grotesque bird to the top of the central mask. I haveno doubt that it is a symbolical ornament especially connected with the mask…

Mayas · Indians of Mexico · Indians of Central America · Inscriptions, Mayan · Maya calendar

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