CHAPTER XXIV

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MAYA ARTS, CALENDAR, AND HIEROGLYPHICS.

Scarcity of Information -- Use of Metals -- Gold and Precious Stones -- Implements of Stone -- Sculpture -- Pottery -- Manufacture of Cloth -- Dyeing -- System of Numeration -- Maya Calendar in Yucatan -- Days, Weeks, Months, and Years -- Indictions and Katunes -- Perez' System of Ahau Katunes -- Statements of Landa and Cogolludo -- Intercalary Days and Years -- Days and Months in Guatemala, Chiapas, and Soconusco -- Maya Hieroglyphic System -- Testimony of Early Writers on the Use of Picture-Writing -- Destruction of Documents -- Specimens which have Survived -- The Dresden Codex -- Manuscript Troano -- Tablets of Palenque, Copan, and Yucatan -- Bishop Landa's Key -- Brasseur de Bourbourg's Interpretation 748

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