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Key:  DAM 263.1997 Actual Location:  Denver Art Museum, Denver , Colorado, United States. Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  aprox. 40 cm. Color:  Orange clay. Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Comments:  A butterfly's mask in the headdress.

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Key:  SOTH 1990.207 Actual Location:  Unknown Collection:  Sotheby Parke Bennet Auction, 2 May 1990. Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  31.7 cm. Chronology:  Pitao 350 - 500 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Auction's catalog, Sotheby's 1990: fig. 207. Comments:  A butterfly mask in the headdress. On both sides of the central mouth of this mask, two Tlaloc heads, turned. The piece is flanked by two bird wings.

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Key:  EMB 31107 Actual Location:  Ethnographic Museum (Ethnologisches Museum), Berlin, Germany. Collection:  Edward Seler 1907 Registration:  IV Ca. 31107 Provenance:  Sierra Juárez, Oaxaca. Measurements:  27 x 19 cm. Color:  Orange clay. Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Schuler-Schömig 1970: 135, plate 205. Comments:  Human figure with butterfly head piece. There are three other pieces with great similarities to this one; see MNA 6-827, MEG 23.6.303 and MFR 7410. Glyphs:  Two glyphs J decorating the dress. Dating:  TL by Goedicke et al. 1992, test no. 205: authentic (TL's date: 271-614 AD).

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