. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. Fig. 69. Zapotec relief fragments from Teotitlan. walls of houses and churches in Teotitlan, as well as in those of theneighboring Macuilxochic. Other pieces have already been placedin the Museo de Oaxaca. What relief fragments I have met with Ihave reproduced in figures 69 and TO, which are, of course, onlysketches and make no pretensions to special accuracy. The frag-ments in b and c, figure 70, are now in the museum at Oaxaca; b,figure 69, was still to be seen in Macuilxochic when I was there, whilea, figure 69, and

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. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. Fig. 69. Zapotec relief fragments from Teotitlan. walls of houses and churches in Teotitlan, as well as in those of theneighboring Macuilxochic. Other pieces have already been placedin the Museo de Oaxaca. What relief fragments I have met with Ihave reproduced in figures 69 and TO, which are, of course, onlysketches and make no pretensions to special accuracy. The frag-ments in b and c, figure 70, are now in the museum at Oaxaca; b,figure 69, was still to be seen in Macuilxochic when I was there, whilea, figure 69, and a, figure 70, are embedded in the wall of the church ofTeotitlan del valle. It is quite evident that the reliefs exhibit, seler] DEITIES AND RELIGIOUS CONCEPTIONS 299 besides the jaguar, the special local deity, a man whose face is heldby the jaws of a bird; that is, the god who came down from.

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