ting as a hint for future
research.

39 Ed. Brinton. Library of Aboriginal literature, p. 13.

40 It is to the superior authority of my distinguished and highly
esteemed colleagues Drs. Otto Stoll and Carl Sapper that I submit
the above considerations. It may be possible for the latter
enthusiastic explorer and for Dr. Gustavo Eisen, who is continuing
his valuable researches in Guatemala, to determine the locality of
the ancient Tullan, which should, I imagine, be sought for in a
region where the land inhabited by the Four Nations would converge
and at a point almost equidistant from the Four Tecpans.

41 In the Mexican collection at the Trocadero Museum in Paris, there is
a curious wooden sceptre in the form of a hand, which has been
figured by Dr. Ernest Hamy in his splendidly illustrated work on
this Museum.

42 See Brinton. The Native Calendar of Central America and Mexico, p.
49.

43 Bulletin of the Museum of Science and Art, University of
Pennsylvania, no. 3, vol. I.

44 Idea de una nueva historia general, Madrid, 1746, p. 117.

45 Native Calendar, p. 50.

46 Vergleichende Studien. Internationales Archiv fuer Ethnographie, bd.
III, 1890, and the Native Calendar, p. 19.

47 See Molina's dictionary for further meanings of verb yuli, which
accounts for another form of primitive native symbolism.

48 See D. G. Brinton (American Hero-myths, p. 155) who, like other
authorities, has not recognized the difference between native
cross-symbols, denoting the four quarters celestial and terrestrial
and the tree of tribal life.

49 Dr. Hale states that these squares remind us of the similar Chinese
character which represents the word "field" (p. 241).

50 A Central American ceremony which suggests the snake dance of the
Tusayan villagers. Reprint from The American Anthropologist, vol.
VI, no. 3, July, 1893. _cf._ Bandelier, Final Report of
Investigations among the Indians of the Southwestern United States.
Archaeol. Inst. Papers, Am. series, IV, pp. 586-591.

51 Thirteenth Report of the Bureau of Ethnology. Washington, 1896.

52 In abbreviated form I note here, inviting special comparison with
Mexico, that the Zuni Upper world was symbolized by the sun, eagle
and turquoise; the Lower world by the rattlesnake, water and toa