What was the symbol of authority among the chiefs?

Firefighter’s speaking trumpet, commonly called, simply, a bugle, is an important symbol of authority within the profession

These objects represent mayan numerals. just like roman numerals, they are combined to symbolize a numeral and this enabled astronomers, scholars and architects to compute various equations yet it was also used by farmers and traders in their day to day transactions.

I’m just going to answer this question for the sake of it. the population of china is approximately 1.43 billion