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The Mazatec Calendar

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Robert J. Weitlaner  and
Irmgard Weitlaner
Robert J. Weitlaner
Affiliation:
Tacubaya, D. F.
Irmgard Weitlaner
Affiliation:
Tacubaya, D. F.
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In the chapter on the Mazatec language of his “Zentral-Amerika” Dr. Walther Lehmann mentions the fact that Dr. Wilhelm Baur had found the tonalamatl among the Mazatec Indians, but he did not give the names of the twenty days.

During the months of January and February, 1936, while in Usila, a western Chinantec town, the junior author obtained information regarding a Mazatec calendar from Adalberto Gonzalez, a native ( Mazatec from Huautla Jimenez. This informant remembered names of twelve months, and meanings of some.

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Research Article
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American Antiquity , Volume 11 , Issue 3 , January 1946 , pp. 194 - 197
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1946 

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