Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo15amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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BEGINNINGS OF AMERICAN NATURAL HISTORY 419 Allen and Tozzer/ however, interpreted as a spotted dog, is depicted in several of the Maya codices that have come down to ns from pre-conquistorial times. Interesting in connection with the aboriginal spotted dog of Mexico, and the ijcrro miido ^ of the West Indies (first observed by Cohimbus in Cuba and Jamaica) is the race of hunting dog which we find depicted in the minor arts of pre-Homeric civiUzation border- ing the Aegean, and continuing until historic times. One of the earliest natu- ralistic paintings of a spotted dog, dating from at least the thirteenth century B. c, is found in a colored frieze from the palace of Tiryns, discovered in 1911. The subject is a boar himt, and the boar 1 Animal Figures of tlie Maya Codices. Papers of Peabody Museum, Amer. Arch., vol. iv, 1910. 2 A particular description of the native West Indian dumb dog is given by Oviedo (1535), who is also the earliest to describe in detail the hutia (Capromys fournieri Desm.). See W. S. Mac- Leay's "Notes on Capromys," in Zool. Journ. vol. iv, 1829. is shown dri\en by dogs on to the spears of the hunters. In the background is a marsh with weeds. The original of this painting is preserved in the Museum at Athens, and copies exist in the British and various American ^Museums. The Letters of Hernando Cortes to the Emperor Charles V. are recognized as " an historical monument of the greatest authenticity and \alue," forming, with the True Relation of Bernal Diaz, the original source of oiu' information regard-
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Egyptian hunting-dog, from an early dj-nastic (5000 ? B. C.) Stone palette foimd by Quibell at Hierakonpolis

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