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AZTEC AND PERUVIAN FISHING 23From the circles or dots we learn that the age of one youthdepicted was thirteen, and from the two connected ovalsmarked with small dashes that his allowance of food consistedof two cakes or tortillas a meal.Fourth, by the symbol beforehis mouth, that the father is speaking. The symbol veryroughly reminds us of the Assyrian system of signs whichdetermine the nature or subject of a word, as the two hundredodd fish mentioned in Asur-bani-pal's Hbrary at Ninevehsignify.000OOOOO00000 t"AZTEC BOATING,From the Mendoza Codex, vol. i. pi, 61, fig, 3,But Mexico as a staff in our quest of priority breaks in ourhands. The Museo Nacional a few years ago contained nothingof prehistoric fishing interestexcept perhaps a notched stonesinker. Greater disappointment still, the wealth of ancientMaya information from the monuments of Merida yields ussometimes fish, but never fishing scenes. ^From ancient Peru I had hoped help, but neither the four^ From a letter from the representative in Mexico of the SmithsonianInstitute, who adds ": My belief is that the Mayas used the Spear, the Net,and the Bow and Arrow. That is all I can give you at present : should anythingelse turn up. I will let you know." In A Study of Maya Art, an elaboratework by Herbert J. Spinder {Peabody Museum Memoirs, Harvard University,1913), I have failed to find any fishing scenes or any ancient fishing implementsdepicted.