A Primer of Mayan Hieroglyphics (Classic Reprint)
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    A Primer of Mayan Hieroglyphics (Classic Reprint)
                                            
                            by Daniel Garrison Brinton
                            
                                22 May, 2019                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        In the following pages I have endeavored with the greatest brevity to supply the learner with the elements necessary for a study of the native hieroglyphic writing of Central America. The material is already so ample that in many directions I have be
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                                                In the following pages I have endeavored with the greatest brevity to supply the learner with the elements necessary for a study of the native hieroglyphic writing of Central America. The material is already so ample that in many directions I have been obliged to refer to it, rather than to summarize it. This will explain various omissions which may be noted by advanced scholars; but they will not, I believe, diminish the usefulness of the work as an elementary treatise.
In conclusion I would express my thanks to the officers of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Washington, and of the Peabody Museum of Archæology, Cambridge, for various facilities they have obligingly furnished me. Less