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Key:  MAM s/n 2 Actual Location:  Amparo Museum, Puebla, Mexico. Collection:  Josué Sáenz Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  65 cm. Color:  Grey clay with blank residues and traces of roots. Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Easby et al. 1970: fig. 160. Comments:  A jaguar coming out of headdress. The figure carries a bag of incense in the hands. Glyphs:  The headdress mask corresponds to glyph U, the deity "Cosaana".

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Key:  MSMA 1993.23.3 Actual Location:  Site Museum, Monte Albán, Oaxaca, Mexico. Registration:  Burial 1993-23, no. 3, Monte Albán. Provenance:  South platform, West side, structure PSLP-S2, square 17, Monte Albán, Oaxaca. Measurements:  30 x 25 x 24 dia. cm. Color:  Beige clay Chronology:  MA IIIB-IV (Winter et al. 1995:126); Xoo 600 - 800 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Winter et al. 1995: 126-127. figs. 33b, 34a, 35b. Comments:  This piece was found in a grave associated with a skeleton and a bat's claw vessel. According to Winter the grave was looted in pre-Hispanic times and these pieces were removed. The effigy vessel was found in two pieces, at different ends of the tomb. When the piece was found the figure was holding a bag of incense (see excavation photo, Winter et al. 1995: 127) but the report does not describe this fragment and it is currently without it. The figure is wearing a mouth mask (type 2). To compare this piece with another, more complete, see SOTH 1976.147.

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Key:  ROM 1949 Actual Location:  Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada. Collection:  Constantino Rickards Registration:  HM 1949 Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  33.5 cm. Color:  Beige clay with traces of red pigment. Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD   Click to view Chronology Comments:  The posture, the position of the hands and the dotted cape indicate that the figure was carrying a bag of incense. The face bears marks from a tattoo or facial scarification. Glyphs:  Glyph C in the headdress. Dating:  TL by Lazos, Ortiz, Ruvalcaba and Sellen, 1999, test #100362: authentic.

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Key:  BM 1946/AM/19/5 Actual Location:  British Museum, London, England. Registration:  1946/AM/19/5 Provenance:  Tyllo, Oaxaca. Measurements:  32 cm. Color:  Cream with light grey coating. Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Boos 1966b: 406, fig. 374. Comments:  The figure is holding a non-identified object in the hands. However, it could be a bag of incense. It wears a mouth jaguar mask and has rosettes in the headdress. There is also a plaited cord in the headdress, on the left side.

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Key:  MFR s/n 3 Actual Location:  Unknown (before at Frissell Museum). Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  54 cm. Chronology:  MA IV (Boos 1966a: 63); Xoo 600 - 800 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Boos 1966a: 63, fig. 43; Paddock 1966: 148, fig. 150. Comments:  This figure is holding a type of staff in the left hand and a shield in the right arm. A bag of incense, with the head of an animal, probably a jaguar, hangs from the headdress. Bags of this type feature in headdresses of human figures carved on jambs in San Lázaro Zautla (cf. Urcid 1991: 10). Behind the bag is the head of a bird, perhaps a quetzal, placed on one side. In December 1959, while this piece was being taken to an exhibition, the transport car had an accident near Huitzo. It was stolen from the scene of the accident and never recovered.

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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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