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Results 21 - 35 of 179 for "xoo"
Key:  MDO 33
Actual Location:  Dolores Olmedo Museum, Mexico City, Mexico (exhibited).
Collection:  Fernando Sologuren; Armilia Van Rijn (195?-1964); Dolores Olmedo Patiño (presently).
Registration:  Record from the National Anthropology and History Institute (INAH), P.F. 100, LO 33
Provenance:  Etla, Oaxaca, according to an undated foto by Rickards.
Measurements:  63 x 48.5 cm.
Color:  Dark grey clay
Chronology:  MA IIIA (Boos 1966b: 390); Pitao 350 - 500 AD
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Reference:  Photo from Rickards, circa 1911 (document by Jorge Rickards); Caso and Bernal 1952: 209, fig. 346; Boos 1966b: 390, fig. 360a and b; Anton and Dockstader 1969: 45.
Comments:  This piece was probably found by Fernando Sologuren at the beginning of the last century. In 1928, Caso and Bernal (1952: 97) took pictures of the piece when it was at Mercedes Sologuren's house. At the beginning of the 1950s, the piece went to Machilda Armilia Van Rijn and then, in 1964, it was acquired by Dolores Olmedo Patiño (personal communication with Patricia Van Rijn, 1999). For a similar Etla style of this period compare it with MDO 32 and MFR 12619.
Glyphs:  Glyph E "Xoo" reproduced several times in the headdress. The headdress mask corresponds to glyph U. Above the mask's nose, a jaguar's head can be seen and, above it, the glyph for corn.

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Key:  MDO 38
Actual Location:  Dolores Olmedo Museum, Mexico City, Mexico (exhibited).
Registration:  Record from the National Anthropology and History Institute (INAH), P.F. 100, LO 38
Provenance:  Unknown
Measurements:  25.5 x 25.5 cm.
Color:  Beige clay
Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD
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Comments:  The headdress of the piece is missing. The figure is holding a bag of incense.

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Key:  SMI 115034
Actual Location:  Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., United States.
Collection:  Louis H. Ayme. Acquired by the Museum on 1 June 1885.
Registration:  Cat. 115034; Acc. # 16107
Provenance:  Chicomazuchil, Oaxaca.
Measurements:  35.5 x 41 cm.
Color:  Beige
Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD
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Reference:  Boos 1966b: 323.
Comments:  There is a head at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM 373) similar to this piece's head and it is possible that the body is alike as well. It could represent an old jaguar, but the other option would be a dog. According to a card from the Smithsonian Institution, fragments under Cat. 115160 and 115043 belong to this piece.

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Key:  MSMA 1993.23.3
Actual Location:  Site Museum, Monte Albán, Oaxaca, Mexico.
Registration:  Burial 1993-23, no. 3, Monte Albán.
Provenance:  South platform, West side, structure PSLP-S2, square 17, Monte Albán, Oaxaca.
Measurements:  30 x 25 x 24 dia. cm.
Color:  Beige clay
Chronology:  MA IIIB-IV (Winter et al. 1995:126); Xoo 600 - 800 AD
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Reference:  Winter et al. 1995: 126-127. figs. 33b, 34a, 35b.
Comments:  This piece was found in a grave associated with a skeleton and a bat's claw vessel. According to Winter the grave was looted in pre-Hispanic times and these pieces were removed. The effigy vessel was found in two pieces, at different ends of the tomb. When the piece was found the figure was holding a bag of incense (see excavation photo, Winter et al. 1995: 127) but the report does not describe this fragment and it is currently without it. The figure is wearing a mouth mask (type 2). To compare this piece with another, more complete, see SOTH 1976.147.

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Key:  MRT 1
Actual Location:  Mexican Museum of Prehispanic Art, Rufino Tamayo, Oaxaca, Mexico.
Collection:  Rufino Tamayo
Provenance:  Unknown
Measurements:  aprox. 30 cm.
Color:  Grey clay
Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD
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Comments:  Representation of a bat.
Glyphs:  Two epsilon glyphs in the corners of the mouth. The eyebrows are shaped like bar numerals.

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Key:  MQB 87.101.47
Actual Location:  Musée du quai Branly (previously Musée de l’Homme), Paris, France
Collection:  Jules Labadie
Registration:  87.101.47
Provenance:  Tlacochahuaya, Oaxaca (Boos 1966: 172)
Measurements:  86 x 62 cm. (Winter 1994: 151); 34.4 x 24.8 cm. (Boos 1966b: 172)
Color:  Grey clay.
Chronology:  MA IIIB-IV (Winter 1994a: 151); MA IIIB (Boos 1966b: 172); Xoo 600 - 800 AD
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Reference:  Boos 1966b: 172. fig. 152; Winter 1994a: 151.
Comments:  This vessel is similar to another vessel at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM 1396), but the glyph in the headdress is different.
Glyphs:  Glyph E in the headdress superimposed to a glyph C.

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Key:  ROM 1399
Actual Location:  Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada.
Collection:  Constantino Rickards
Registration:  HM 1399
Provenance:  Santo Domingo Galiesa, District of Ocotlán, Oaxaca.
Measurements:  43.2 cm.
Color:  Light grey clay with a light grey coating.
Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD
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Reference:  Photo from the Rickards Collection circa 1917; Rickards 1938: 164, plate V (Rickards published a copy of this piece); Treasures of Pre-Columbian Art 1959: no. 547; Woeller 1960: plate 28; Boos 1968a: vol. III, plate XI; Sellen 1999: fig. 1, 2002a.
Comments:  This piece has been forged with copies. The copies are in various collections in Europe and most of them have been proven false thanks to the TL test (cf. Schuler-Schömig 1970: 8, plate II, for the piece in Berlin and Mongne 1987: 25-26, fig. 10, for an example of the four pieces in Paris). Rickards (1938: 164) reports that four vessels like this one came out of a tomb in Santo Domingo. If this information is true, then the location of the other three original pieces is unknown.
Glyphs:  Glyph C in the headdress. The glyph on one side of the head is unknown. The glyph for corn in the right hand. In the left hand, possibly another unknown plant, maybe it is the young corn (cf. Sellen 2002b).
Dating:  TL by Shaplin and Zimmerman, 1978, test #21: authentic; TL by Lazos, Ortiz, Ruvalcaba and Sellen 1999, test #110375: authentic.

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Key:  ROM 1435
Actual Location:  Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada.
Collection:  Constantino Rickards
Registration:  HM 1435
Provenance:  Cuilapan, Oaxaca.
Measurements:  42 cm.
Color:  Grey clay with a lighter layer of stucco.
Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD
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Reference:  Rickards 1922; Boos 1964b: plate XIa & XIb; Urcid 1998: fig. 3; Sellen 2000b, 2002b.
Comments:  This engraved cylinder has an identical companion (cf. Rickards 1922 and photos of the collection before it reached Canada). The location of the other piece is unknown. The use of this piece is also unknown (cf. Urcid 1998 and Sellen 2002b). The figure of Cocijo has been reproduced twice in the cylinder, carrying objects in both hands, probably corn plants in different stages of development.
Glyphs:  Glyph C in the headdress.
Dating:  TL by Lazos, Ortiz, Ruvalcaba and Sellen, 1999, test #110385: authentic.

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Key:  ROM 1452
Actual Location:  Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada.
Collection:  Constantino Rickards
Registration:  HM 1452
Provenance:  Unknown
Measurements:  9 cm.
Color:  Grey clay.
Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD
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Comments:  Demijohn with two pouring handles.
Glyphs:  Glyph C in the headdress and above it , three glyphs for corn grain.

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Key:  ROM 168
Actual Location:  Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada.
Collection:  Constantino Rickards
Registration:  HM 168
Provenance:  Unknown
Measurements:  13.5 cm.
Color:  Dark grey clay.
Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD
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Glyphs:  The owl's face in the vessel corresponds to glyph F.

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Key:  ROM 182
Actual Location:  Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada.
Collection:  Constantino Rickards
Registration:  HM 182
Provenance:  Unknown
Measurements:  11.5 cm.
Color:  Grey clay.
Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD
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Comments:  Globular pot with two pouring handles.
Glyphs:  Glyph C in the headdress and above it, five glyphs for corn grain.

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Key:  ROM 184
Actual Location:  Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada.
Collection:  Constantino Rickards
Registration:  HM 184
Provenance:  Unknown
Measurements:  11.5 cm.
Color:  Grey clay.
Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD
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Comments:  Globular pot with two pouring handles.
Glyphs:  Glyph C in the headdress and above it, five glyphs for corn grain.

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Key:  ROM 1887
Actual Location:  Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada.
Collection:  Constantino Rickards
Registration:  HM 1887
Provenance:  Unknown
Measurements:  29 cm.
Color:  Grey clay covered with a red pigment coating.
Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD
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Reference:  Sellen 2003: 4.
Comments:  Representation of a women, knealing and taking a plate to her lips. The vessel is broken. There are traces of stucco on the edge, where the vessel was, so the piece was probably built into a wall or niche. One of its kind.
Dating:  TL by Lazos, Ortiz, Ruvalcaba and Sellen, 1999, test # 090329: authentic.

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Key:  ROM 1891
Actual Location:  Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada.
Collection:  Constantino Rickards
Registration:  HM 1891 / 917.4.67
Provenance:  Unknown
Measurements:  37 cm.
Color:  Beige clay.
Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD
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Reference:  Boos 1966b: 203, fig. 183; Boos 1966c: 40, fig. 2.
Comments:  There are two pieces similar to this one. The first is part of a private collection in Finland (cf. Boos 1966c: 37, fig. 1) and the second is at the Smithsonian Institution (cf. Boos 1966b: 202, fig. 182). The two elements repeated in the headdress represent wings.
Dating:  TL by Shaplin and Zimmerman, test #36: authentic.

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Key:  ROM 1907
Actual Location:  Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada.
Collection:  Constantino Rickards
Registration:  HM 1907 / 917.4.82
Provenance:  Teojumulco, District of Juquila, Oaxaca.
Measurements:  46 cm.
Color:  Beige clay.
Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD
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Comments:  This piece is quite unusual. It shows a standing human figure, with a Cocijo mask.
Glyphs:  A glyph C in the headdress.
Dating:  TL by Shaplin and Zimmerman, test #26: authentic.

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