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Key:  MFVF 3 Actual Location:  Museum für Völkerkunde, Freiburg-Im-Breisgau, Germany. Collection:  Bodo Spranz Registration:  No. 3 Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  23 cm. Chronology:  MA IIIB (Boos 1966b: 417); Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Boos 1966b: 417 & 418, figs. 384 & 385. Comments:  Figure holding a bag of incense and wearing a decorated cape.

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Key:  MNA 6-4850 Actual Location:  National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City, Mexico. Registration:  6-4850 (INAH 10-61335) Provenance:  Offering in courtyard VII of tomb 103, Monte Albán, Oaxaca. Measurements:  aprox. 20 cm. Color:  Grey clay with traces of red pigment. Chronology:  MA IIIB (Caso and Bernal 1952: 185); Xoo 600 - 800 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Caso 1939: 181 -183, figs. 18 & 19; Caso and Bernal 1952: 185-186, fig. 315. Comments:  Caso and Bernal say: "In [the offering] there are five human figures with masks of bird beaks. Two of them also have quetzal headdresses, while the other three are wearing serpent headdresses. Perhaps, together, they represent the Quetzalcoatl" (Caso and Bernal 1952: 185-186). This figures has an owl's mask in headdress and holds an incense bag in the left hand. All the figures' headdresses are removable. See MNA 6-4851.

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Key:  MFR 2770 Actual Location:  Frissell Museum, Mitla, Mexico. Collection:  Ervin Frissell (date of purchase: 6 June 1969). Registration:  INAH 2770 / MFR 8266 Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  25.8 x 19.3 cm. Color:  Grey with traces of red paint. Chronology:  MA IIIA (Kowalewski and Truell, 1970: 3); Pitao 350 - 500 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Kowalewski and Truell, 1970, p. 3, figs. 3 & 4 and also cover. Comments:  This effigy has attributes of the Central Mexican Rain God known as Tlaloc. The defining characteristic are the large rings around the eyes. The pectoral seems to be a bag of incense, similar to the ones seen on Tlaloc vessels from Teotihuacan.

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Key:  SMI 115149 Actual Location:  Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., United States. Collection:  Manuel Ortega Reyes; Louis H. Ayme. Acquired by the Museum on 29 July 1885. Registration:  Cat. 115149; Acc. No. 16290 Provenance:  Zaachila, Oaxaca. Measurements:  29 x 24.5 cm. Color:  Light grey clay. Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Von Müller 1864: 82, fig. II; Boos 1966: 483, fig. 457 (Boos identified the piece with the wrong catalog number, i.e. 115148). Comments:  Representation of a dog or maybe, an old jaguar. The human figure holds a bag of incense in the hands.

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Key:  CB 1 Actual Location:  Bustamante Vasconcelos Foundation, Oaxaca City, Oaxaca, Mexico. Collection:  Mr. Manuel J. Bustamante Vasconcelos Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  42 x 30 cm. Color:  Traces of red pigment on face. Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Comments:  From one side of the headdress, a jaguar head sticks out, next to a plaited cord. The human figure is wearing a cape decorated with small dots and is holding a bag of incense.

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Key:  MFR 12583 Actual Location:  Frissell Museum, Mitla, Mexico. Registration:  MFR 12583 / INAH 3263 Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  50 x 38 cm. Color:  Grey clay Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Comments:  This figure is missing the head and part of the left hand. However, we can see that it was carrying a bag of incense in this hand. The right hand is stretched out, palm up. Glyphs:  The face of an owl is tied to the right arm and glyph M (Cocijo) to the left arm. Dating:  F57

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Key:  MFR 12641 Actual Location:  Frissell Museum, Mitla, Mexico. Registration:  MFR 12641 / INAH 3317 Provenance:  Tlacochahuaya, Oaxaca. Measurements:  74 x 42 cm. Color:  Grey clay Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Comments:  This figure's right hand is stretched out, palm up, which most probably means that it was holding a bag of incense in the left hand, as this is typical in this type of posture. In the center of the headdress, a large jaguar head. Glyphs:  In the piece's pedestal, the glyph for corn field, framed by the glyph for hill. Dating:  F6

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Key:  MFR 931 Actual Location:  Frissell Museum, Mitla, Mexico. Registration:  MFR 931/INAH 249 Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  25.5 x 21 cm. Chronology:  MA IIIB (According to Shaplin's judgement, MFR's card); Pitao 350 - 500 AD   Click to view Chronology Comments:  Effigy of Cocijo. It carries a bag of incense in the pectoral. Dating:  F20

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Key:  MNA 6-799 Actual Location:  National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City, Mexico. Registration:  6-799 / 6-3302 Provenance:  Amatlán, Oaxaca. Measurements:  37 cm. Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Caso and Bernal 1952: 180, fig. 307 Comments:  Human figure with a bird in the headdress, possibly a turkey buzzard. He is holding a bag of incense in the left hand. For similar pieces, compare with MFR 1845, MFVV 6087 y MNA 6-799.

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Key:  MNA 6-7892 Actual Location:  National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City, Mexico (exhibited). Provenance:  Tomb located in the summit of "El Corral", Magdalena Jicotlán, La Mixteca, Oaxaca. Measurements:  36 x 32.2 cm. Color:  Painted with bright colors in green, yellow and red. Chronology:  MA IIIB (Bernal 1963: 33); Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Bernal 1963: 33-34 Comments:  In the upper part of the headdress, the head of a quetzal. The figure is holding an incense bag in the hands. Glyphs:  The narrow strip hanging from one side of the headdress has a face corresponding to glyph V. Three glyphs E decorating the loincloth's edge.

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Key:  MFR 8898 Actual Location:  Frissell Museum, Mitla, Mexico. Collection:  Ervin Frissell Registration:  8898 Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  17.7 x 11 x 12 cm. Color:  Grey clay Chronology:  MA IIIB (Paddock, Museum's catalog card); Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Comments:  Bust with a mask of the glyph, adhered to an effigy of a bag of incense. The bag is divided into two separate glasses. Compare with pieces MFR 2540, MNA 6-1600, MACP B-0342 and MH 24.13.3663. Glyphs:  Glyph ñ.

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Key:  MFR 2540 Actual Location:  Frissell Museum, Mitla, Mexico. Collection:  Ervin Frissell Registration:  MFR 2540 Provenance:  San Lorenzo Cacaotepec, Oaxaca. Measurements:  18.2 x 12.7 x 10.5 cm. Color:  Grey clay Chronology:  MA IIIB (Paddock, in the Museum's catalog card); Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Comments:  Effigy of a bag of incense with slip knot. Compare with MFR 8898, MH 24.13.366, MNA 6-1600 and MACP B-0342.

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Key:  MNA 6-1600 Actual Location:  National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City, Mexico. Collection:  Fernando Sologuren Registration:  6-1600 Provenance:  Zautla, Etla (Peñafiel 1893: 13); Nazareno (Caso and Bernal 1952: 109) Oaxaca. Measurements:  21 cm. Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Peñafiel 1893: 13; Caso and Bernal 1952: 109, fig 179. Comments:  Effigy of an incense bag tied with slip knot decorated with bows. A piece that looks exactly like this one is held at the Carlos Pellicer Museum in Tabasco (cf. MACP B-0342), but iut is slightly more complete. Therefore there must have been at least two objects in the same series. The origen of the object is in doubt given that there are two versions of its provenance. Compare with MFR 2540, MFR 8898 and MH 24.13.3663.

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Key:  MH 24.13.3669 Actual Location:  Musée de l'Homme (Museum of Man), Paris, France. Collection:  Auguste Genin Registration:  24.13.3669 Provenance:  Chitla, District of Tlacolula, Oaxaca. Measurements:  14 X 15.4 dia. cm. Color:  Dark grey clay with traces of red pigment. Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Boos 1966: 411, fig. 380. Comments:  Effigy of an incense bag with slip knot. Compare with MNA 6-1600, MACP B-0342, MFR 2540 and MFR 8898

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Key:  CPA 11 Actual Location:  Unknown Collection:  Private collecion in Mexico. Provenance:  Unknown Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Boos 1966: 410, fig. 379 (photo from the Wenner-Gren Foundation). Comments:  Effigy of an incense bag with slip knot.

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