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Title: Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Subjects: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology Ethnology Indians
Publisher: Washington : U. S. Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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means of testing Mr Goodmans discoveries, following liisexplanations so far as this was necessary. IxscnirnoN at Pikdkas Nkgras Before concluding reference to the inscriptions. 1 call attention to onemore recently discovered by ^Ir Teol)ert dialer at Piedras Negras onthe Usumacinta river. This, as copied from Mr INIaudslaj-s drawing,which he made from the photograph, is given in our figure 20. AsMr ^laudslay has subjected it to ^Ir Goodmans theory, we gi\e here THOMAS) INSCRIPTION AT PIEDRAS NEGRAS 789 the result iu his own words, after stating that the initial series asGoodman ■would read it is 54-9-12-3-0-16 to 5 Cib 14 Yaxkin:
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Tlie next three jjlyphs are undeoiphered; then comes another reckoning:CI is the chuen sign with tlie numeral 10 (two l)ars=10) above it, and a fullcount sign at the side. Whether the 10 applies to the chuens or days can only be 790 MAYAN CALENDAR SYSTEMS (f.th.ans.19 deterniineil liy experiment, and such experiment in this case shows that the reckon-ing intended to lie expressed is 10 chuens and a full count of days—that is, forpractical purposes 10 chuens only, for as in the last reckoning, when the full countof chuens was expressed in the ahaus, so here the full count of days is expressed inthe chuens. The next glyph Dl is an ahau sign, preceiled hy the numeral 12. This gives us: Days 12 Ahaus (12x360) 4,320 10 Chuens (10x20) 200 4, 520 4, .380=12 years 140 Adding 4,.520 days, or 12 years and 140 days, to the date 5 Cib 14 Kankin itbrings us to the <late 1 Cib 14 Kankin in the thirteenth year of the annual calendar. Turning to the inscription we find at C2 (passing over the fi

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