quities, preserved at Berlin and Hamburg, are
well known. Die Steinsculptures von Santa Lucia Cozumalhuapa
(Guatemala) in Museum fur Volkerkunde. Hamburg, 1894. Jahrbuch der
Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Austallen, XI.

Three of these remarkable bas-reliefs are figured in the valuable
publication by Geheimrath A. Bastian: Steinsculpturen aus Guatemala,
Berichte der Koeniglichen Museen zu Berlin, 1882. Dr. Habel's
drawings were published in 1878, in the 22d vol. of the Smithsonian
Contributions to Knowledge.

Casts of these bas-reliefs are on exhibition in the Peabody Museum.

28 "The skins of lions, with the heads, had been prepared, with gold
ear-pieces in the ears and golden teeth in place of the real teeth
which had been pulled out. In the paws were certain rings of gold.
Those who were dressed or invested with these skins put on the head
and neck of the lion so as to cover their own and the skin of the
body of the lion hung from the shoulders." _op. cit._ p. 45.

The wearing of puma and ocelot skins by one of the two highest
grades of warriors in Mexico is too well known to need further
mention here.

29 In connection with the three points proceeding from the eye, the
Mexican symbol for star, I would draw attention to the fact that in
the latitude of Santa Lucia only three equidistant positions of Ursa
Major, and, possibly, of Ursa Minor, would be observable, the
constellations being below the northern horizon when lying between
it and Polaris. The symbolical three points could have thus
originated in the same way as the triskeles in other countries, from
observation of the identical phenomenon.

30 This bas-relief is reproduced in vol. III of the Anales del Museo
Nacional, p. 302, and is discussed by Senor Sanchez.

31 Article Peru, Encyclopaedia Britannica.

32 Garcilaso de la Vega, The Royal Commentaries of the Incas, Hakluyt
ed. vol. I, p. 270.

33 Rites and Laws of the Incas, ed. Hakluyt, p. 86.

34 Rites and Laws of the Incas, ed. Hakluyt, pp. 77, 84.

35 The Heavens ... London. Richard Bentley and Son. 1883. pp. 287-289.

36 Historia Chichimeca, chap. XIX.

37 In Quechua the left hand was named lloque maqui and the right, pana
maqui. In the Chinchaysuyo dialect of Quechua the left hand was
hichoc m