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Key:  SMI 115151 Actual Location:  Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., United States. Collection:  Louis H. Ayme. Acquired by the Museum on 29 July 1885. Registration:  Cat. 115151, Acc. No. 16290 Provenance:  Zaachila, Oaxaca. Measurements:  40 x 34.5 cm. Color:  Light grey clay with a bright red coating. Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Boos 1966: 130, fig. 115 and p. 64, color plate; Whitecotton 1985: 87. Comments:  This piece is used as the lid of another container, maybe a brazier. There is an alligator's mask in the headdress, and above it, another mask, of a butterfly. The human figure is holding a bird in each hand, probably quetzal birds.

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Key:  SOTH 1994.133 Actual Location:  Unknown Collection:  Sotheby Parke Bennet Auction, 15 November 1994. Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  55.2 cm. Color:  Grey clay. Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Auction's catalog, Sotheby's 1994: fig. 133. Glyphs:  The headdress represents glyph V (alligator). There are three numerals 2 in the headdress and one under the face (3V).

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Key:  CB 5 Actual Location:  Bustamante Vasconcelos Foundation, Oaxaca City, Oaxaca, Mexico. Collection:  Mr. Manuel J. Bustamante Vasconcelos Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  22 x 16.5 cm. Color:  Grey clay Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Comments:  On the back of the broken headdress, which is the hair falling on the figure's shoulders, a design of alligator's eyes is engraved. The front part of the headdress probably had a glyph C.

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Key:  MFR 1225 Actual Location:  Frissell Museum, Mitla, Mexico. Collection:  Howard Leigh (date of purchase: 1954) Registration:  MFR 1225 / INAH 3313 Provenance:  Suchilquitongo, Oaxaca. Measurements:  78 x 52 cm. Color:  Grey clay with traces of red. Chronology:  MA IIIB (Howard Leigh, MFR card 1225); Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Boos 1966:99; Boos 1966: plate LXXXIX. Comments:  This monumental vessel is part of a series of four. Three are at the Frissell Museum (catalog numbers: 1225, 927 and 1240). This last piece is not complete, and only the head remains. The fourth piece is located in the Gardiner Museum in Canada (GM 83.1.179). The human figure represented is wearing an alligator's mask. While he was acting curator of the Frissell Musem, Howard Leigh ilegally sold one of the objects and had it removed from Mexico. Possibly he sold it to a man named "Davis" in New Orleans, United States. The piece was later sold to the Canadian George C. Gardiner through Sotheby Parke Bennet in 1975. Glyphs:  A glyph C in the headdress. The alligator's mask corresponds to glyph V.

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Key:  MCO Of. In. del Templo X Actual Location:  Museum of Cultures of Oaxaca, City of Oaxaca, Mexico (exhibited). Provenance:  Offering inside Temple X, Monte Albán, Oaxaca. Measurements:  50 cm. Color:  Grey clay Chronology:  Transition (Caso and Bernal, 1952: 34); Tani 200 - 350 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Caso and Bernal 1952: 33-34, fig. 33. Comments:  Human figure with Cocijo mask. Alligator eyes decorate the loincloth.

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Key:  SOTH 1973.259 Actual Location:  Unknown Collection:  Sotheby Parke Bennet Auction, 14 November 1973 and 17 May 1988. Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  44.4 cm. Chronology:  Pitao 350 - 500 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Auction's catalog, Sotheby's 1973: fig. 259; 1988: fig. 186. Comments:  Figure with mask with feline traits (alligator). A pot was held in the left hand.

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Key:  ROM 323 Actual Location:  Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada. Collection:  Constantino Rickards Registration:  HM 323 Provenance:  Tlacolula, Oaxaca. Measurements:  12.5 cm. Color:  Grey clay. Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Sellen 1999: 3. Comments:  Glass with a bat's claw and engraved glyph. See EMB 35312. Glyphs:  Glyph V "alligator eye". Numeral 1 engraved on the claw's foot (1 V). Dating:  National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), test no. 090322: authentic.

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Key:  EMB 11394 Actual Location:  Ethnographic Museum (Ethnologisches Museum), Berlin, Germany. Collection:  Seler 1887 and 1888 Registration:  IV Ca. 11394 Provenance:  Mitla, Oaxaca. Measurements:  28 cm. de largo. Tubo 7 cm. dia Color:  Brown clay with traces of white stucco and red pigment. Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD   Click to view Chronology Comments:  This piece was probably used as a drain because it is shaped like a tube. A rectangular opening on the top means that the liquid would have run down the sides of the alligator or serpent's head . A human figure comes out of its jaws and the nose of this supernatural being is a jaguar's head.

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Key:  MNA Patio t.104 Actual Location:  National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City, Mexico. Provenance:  Courtyard of tomb 104, Monte Albán, Oaxaca. Measurements:  26 cm. Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Caso and Bernal 1952: 285, fig. 432. Comments:  Caso and Bernal (1952: 283) say: "...[the figure] bears a serpent eye in the headdress, as well as a few beads of jade, decorated as numerals, in the shape of number 11, which was probably 13; among them, a bead of authentic jade". Because of the bad quality of the photo presented, these details cannot be observed. Glyphs:  The glyph for alligator eye (V) in the headdress.

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Key:  SDMA Actual Location:  San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California, United States. Collection:  John K Stearns Registration:  1978-14-236 Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  16 cm. Color:  Grey clay painted with a bright red pigment. Chronology:  Pitao 350 - 500 AD   Click to view Chronology Comments:  Bird wings can be seen on both sides of the face. Glyphs:  Glyph V (alligator) in the headdress.

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Key:  MFR 1848 Actual Location:  Frissell Museum, Mitla, Mexico. Collection:  Ervin Frissell Registration:  1848 Provenance:  Unknown Color:  Grey clay with traces of red pigment and white stucco. Chronology:  Pitao 350 - 500 AD   Click to view Chronology Comments:  Figure of an old man holding a drum under his right arm. A maxilla hangs from his left ear and there was probably another one on the right side. The figure is carrying a vessel on his back with a leather harness known as "mecapal". The figure's base has an embossed engraving with the design of alligator's eyes. Drawing based on a photo from Philippa Shaplin. Glyphs:  In the frame of the pedestal there is a series of the gllyph V. Compare this piece with the base of MNA 6-486.

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Key:  MWF 33804 Actual Location:  Museum der Weltkulturen, Frankfurt, Germany Collection:  Gustave Bellon; Galerie Carrefour, Paris, 1941 Registration:  NS 33804 Provenance:  n/p Color:  Beige clay with traces of red pigment. Chronology:  Pitao 350 - 500 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  not published Comments:  Photograph in AMNH shows this object in the Bellon collection. This piece has a great deal of damage to the headdress. It is very similar to ROM 1948, and wears the same bucal mask corresponding to the glyph V (alligator). Glyphs:  The glyph for "corn field" in the pectoral.

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Key:  NMAI 1752214 Actual Location:  National Museum of the Americann Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., United States Collection:  Louis Gustave Bellon; George Gustave Heye 1928 Registration:  Box: 1752214.000 (National Museum of the American Indian); Plaster cast lid: PC0089.000 Provenance:  San Jacinto Amilpas, Center District, Oaxaca Measurements:  Caja: 18.5 altura; 40 x 37 cm. Tapa: aprox 27.5 alt. Color:  Grey clay Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Photograph in the archive of Marshall H. Saville, America Museum of Natural History, Box 27. Comments:  This box and lid originally belonged to the Bellon collection, but was later acquired by George Heye, apparently without the lid. Based on an old photograph the museum fabricated a plaster cast of the original lid. The whereabouts of the original is unknown. On the four sides of the box there are figures missing their heads, but it is likely that these had masks of Cocijo similar to the one worn by the head on the box. Also, these figures hold implements in their hands: in the right hand there is a rope, while in the left a kind of scepter, or perhaps a digging stick. Glyphs:  On the top part of the box a design is drawn on the four borders representing the glyph V (alligator's eye). The pectoral plate is the glyph for "milpa".

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