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Key:  ROM 1913 Actual Location:  Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada. Collection:  Constantino Rickards Registration:  HM 1913 Provenance:  Zaachila, Zimatlán, Oaxaca. Measurements:  21.5 cm. Color:  Dark grey clay with traces of red pigment. Polished. Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD   Click to view Chronology Comments:  Effigy of a bat.

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Key:  ROM 341 Actual Location:  Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada. Collection:  Constantino Rickards Registration:  HM 341 Provenance:  Zaachila, Distrito de Zimatlán, Oaxaca. Measurements:  23 cm. Color:  Dark grey clay with traces of red pigment. Polished. Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD   Click to view Chronology Comments:  Effigy of a bat.

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Key:  MNA 6-21 Actual Location:  National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City, Mexico (exhibited). Collection:  Fernando Sologuren #410 Registration:  6-21 / 10-61339 INAH Provenance:  Jalieza, Ocotlán Measurements:  40 cm. Color:  Covered with white pigment. Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Gendrop 1970: 136, fig. 157a. Comments:  Bat effigy head. According to Sologuren this piece was found inside a tomb encrusted in a niche.

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Key:  Nelson 1 Actual Location:  Unknown Collection:  Nelson Provenance:  Unknown Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Drawing based on a photograph provided by Javier Urcid (2003). Comments:  Effigy of a bat carrying a staff. There is some kind of knot in the genitals. Glyphs:  Two glyphs for blood in the corners of the mouth.

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Key:  EMB 35312 Actual Location:  Ethnographic Museum (Ethnologisches Museum), Berlin, Germany. Collection:  Edward Seler 1911 Registration:  IV Ca. 35312 Provenance:  Santo Domigo Jalieza, Oaxaca. Measurements:  11.5 x 10.9 x 5.5 dia. cm. Color:  Grey clay Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Schuler-Schömig 1970: 60, plates 63 a-b. Comments:  Vase in the shape of a bat's claw. The claws are missing. Compare this vase with ROM 323, which is complete and has the same glyph. Glyphs:  Glyph V on vase. The glyph for heart or blood, Teotihuacan style, on the claw's foot. On the opposite side, the glyph for blood. Dating:  TL by Goedicke et al. 1992, test no. 63: authentic (TL's date: A.C. 1235-1287).

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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:  MFR 12500 Actual Location:  Frissell Museum, Mitla, Mexico. Collection:  Howard Leigh (1972) Registration:  MFR 12500 / INAH 3163 Provenance:  Zaachila, Oaxaca. Measurements:  410 x 290 x 220 mm. Color:  Grey clay with traces of red pigment. Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD   Click to view Chronology Comments:  Goes together with MFR 12502. Bat whose nasal appendage was broken and painted in vermillion in Ancient Times. To compare headdresses with the trapezoid-lightning pattern, see ROM 1400, LAMBI T/26, SMI 215070, MFR 12502 and MFR 12520. Glyphs:  Trapezoid-lightning in the headdress. Two epsilon or blood glyphs in the corners of the mouth. Framed by the trapezoid-lightning, a feline's mouth. Dating:  F 29

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Key:  AMNH 30.0/1 Actual Location:  American Museum of Natural History, New York, United States Collection:  Mrs. Robert W. De Forest. Donated 8 April 1904. Registration:  30.0/1; Acc. 1904-25. Provenance:  Found in a mound, near a tomb, in the valley of Oaxaca, Winter 1903-1904. Color:  Beige clay with traces of red pigment in the mask in the headress (teeth) Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Saville 1904: 51, photo p. 50. Comments:  This figure represents a woman holding a shield and a club. The mask in the headddress represents Cocijo. The piece was probably found with AMNH 30.0/4, a bat figure with the same headdress.

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Key:  AMNH 30.0/4 Actual Location:  American Museum of Natural History, New York, United States Collection:  Mrs. Robert W. De Forest. Donated 8 April 1904. Registration:  30.0/4; Acc. 1904-25. Provenance:  Found in a mound near a tomb, in the vally of Oaxaca, Winter 1903-1904. Color:  Beige clay Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Saville 1904: 51, photo on p. 50. Comments:  This object probably accompanied AMNH 30.0/1 and represents a man personifying a bat. In his hands he hold a shield and a club. Part of the club has broken off.

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