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 |
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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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