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Key:  AMNH 164/322763 Actual Location:  American Museum of Natural History, New York, United States. Collection:  Marshall H. Saville Registration:  164/322763 Provenance:  Cuilapan, Oaxaca. Measurements:  68.5 cm. Color:  Light grey clay Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Saville 1904: 58; Boos 1968a: vol. III, 27, plate X. Comments:  Discovered by Saville in 1902. He found it in front of a tomb in Cuilapan (Saville 1904: 59). The hands have been restored for the object's exhibition. Glyphs:  Glyph C in the headdress. The pectoral shows the glyph for "open corn grain", combined with glyph E.

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Key:  CMA 44.78 Actual Location:  Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, United States. Collection:  Donation from the Eastman Family. Registration:  44.78 Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  37 x 26.5 cm. Color:  Light brown clay. Chronology:  MA IIIA (Boos 1966b: 74); Pitao 350 - 500 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Boos 1966b: 74, fig. 53. Comments:  The pectoral and part of the headdress are missing from this piece. For other examples, see MNA 6-635, EMB 24882, MFVV 55.158, MDO 32 and MFR s/n 1. For an analysis of this type, see Sellen 2002: 9. Glyphs:  Glyph C in headdress flanked by two ears of corn. Cocijo mask in the headdress (glyph M).

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Key:  MA t/104 Actual Location:  Monte Albán, built in the facade of tomb 104. Provenance:  Monte Albán, Oaxaca. Measurements:  91 cm. Color:  Grey clay Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Caso 1938: 73 and 76, fig. 92; Caso and Bernal 1952: 51, fig. 72. Comments:  The figure holds a bag of incense in one hand and the other hand is stretched out. This hand was mutilated by a tourist a few years back. In 1938, Caso identified this piece as Pitao Cozobi or God of Corn, but later, together with Bernal, they decide to classify it, in their work of 1952, as the "God with Cocijo Head in Headdress". The headdress mask belongs to the Xicani and is flanked by two jaguar heads.

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Key:  MES 23.8.240 Actual Location:  Swedish Ethnographic Museum, Stockholm, Sweden. Collection:  August Edwin Paulson Registration:  23.8.240 Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  30.5 cm. Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Linné 1938: 138, plate 20. Comments:  Ears of corn can be seen in the headdress. Compare with the piece at the Amparo Museum (MAM 631) and with the piece at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH 30.3/2301A).

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Key:  MAM 631 Actual Location:  Amparo Museum, Puebla, Mexico. Collection:  Josué Sáenz Registration:  National Anthropology and History Institute (INAH) Reg. 58 P.F., piece 631 Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  124 x 50 x 30 dia. cm. Color:  Grey clay with traces of white paint. Red pigment in the vessel held in hands. Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Easby et al. 1970: fig. 161; Amparo Museum 1993: fig. 62. Comments:  A row of ears of corn can be seen in the headdress. Compare with the piece at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH 30.3/2301A) and the piece in the Paulson collection (MES 23.8.240). Glyphs:  Glyph C in the vessel held in hands.

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Key:  MRT 1 Actual Location:  Mexican Museum of Prehispanic Art, Rufino Tamayo, Oaxaca, Mexico. Collection:  Rufino Tamayo Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  aprox. 30 cm. Color:  Grey clay Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD   Click to view Chronology Comments:  Representation of a bat. Glyphs:  Two epsilon glyphs in the corners of the mouth. The eyebrows are shaped like bar numerals.

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Key:  MES 23.8.307 Actual Location:  Swedish Ethnographic Museum, Stockholm, Sweden. Collection:  August Edwin Paulson Registration:  23.8.307 Provenance:  Tuxtepec, Oaxaca. Measurements:  37.9 x 31.9 cm. Color:  Front part in red. Traces of green paint. Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Linné 1938: 160, plate 31. Comments:  The piece has been partially restored. According to Linné, it was wearing a Cocijo mask. Glyphs:  Glyph J in the headdress. Two alligator eyes in the throne's back and above these, two glyphs for sprouted corn.

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Key:  SOTH 1989.204 Actual Location:  Unknown Collection:  Sotheby Parke Bennet Auction, 20 November 1989. Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  38.2 cm. Chronology:  Pitao 350 - 500 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Auction's catalog, Sotheby's 1989: fig. 204. Comments:  The figure is holding an ear of corn in the hands. Glyphs:  Glyph C in the headdress.

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Key:  ROM 1399 Actual Location:  Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada. Collection:  Constantino Rickards Registration:  HM 1399 Provenance:  Santo Domingo Galiesa, District of Ocotlán, Oaxaca. Measurements:  43.2 cm. Color:  Light grey clay with a light grey coating. Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Photo from the Rickards Collection circa 1917; Rickards 1938: 164, plate V (Rickards published a copy of this piece); Treasures of Pre-Columbian Art 1959: no. 547; Woeller 1960: plate 28; Boos 1968a: vol. III, plate XI; Sellen 1999: fig. 1, 2002a. Comments:  This piece has been forged with copies. The copies are in various collections in Europe and most of them have been proven false thanks to the TL test (cf. Schuler-Schömig 1970: 8, plate II, for the piece in Berlin and Mongne 1987: 25-26, fig. 10, for an example of the four pieces in Paris). Rickards (1938: 164) reports that four vessels like this one came out of a tomb in Santo Domingo. If this information is true, then the location of the other three original pieces is unknown. Glyphs:  Glyph C in the headdress. The glyph on one side of the head is unknown. The glyph for corn in the right hand. In the left hand, possibly another unknown plant, maybe it is the young corn (cf. Sellen 2002b). Dating:  TL by Shaplin and Zimmerman, 1978, test #21: authentic; TL by Lazos, Ortiz, Ruvalcaba and Sellen 1999, test #110375: authentic.

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Key:  ROM 1435 Actual Location:  Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada. Collection:  Constantino Rickards Registration:  HM 1435 Provenance:  Cuilapan, Oaxaca. Measurements:  42 cm. Color:  Grey clay with a lighter layer of stucco. Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Rickards 1922; Boos 1964b: plate XIa & XIb; Urcid 1998: fig. 3; Sellen 2000b, 2002b. Comments:  This engraved cylinder has an identical companion (cf. Rickards 1922 and photos of the collection before it reached Canada). The location of the other piece is unknown. The use of this piece is also unknown (cf. Urcid 1998 and Sellen 2002b). The figure of Cocijo has been reproduced twice in the cylinder, carrying objects in both hands, probably corn plants in different stages of development. Glyphs:  Glyph C in the headdress. Dating:  TL by Lazos, Ortiz, Ruvalcaba and Sellen, 1999, test #110385: authentic.

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Key:  ROM 1452 Actual Location:  Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada. Collection:  Constantino Rickards Registration:  HM 1452 Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  9 cm. Color:  Grey clay. Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD   Click to view Chronology Comments:  Demijohn with two pouring handles. Glyphs:  Glyph C in the headdress and above it , three glyphs for corn grain.

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Key:  ROM 182 Actual Location:  Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada. Collection:  Constantino Rickards Registration:  HM 182 Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  11.5 cm. Color:  Grey clay. Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD   Click to view Chronology Comments:  Globular pot with two pouring handles. Glyphs:  Glyph C in the headdress and above it, five glyphs for corn grain.

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Key:  ROM 184 Actual Location:  Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada. Collection:  Constantino Rickards Registration:  HM 184 Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  11.5 cm. Color:  Grey clay. Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD   Click to view Chronology Comments:  Globular pot with two pouring handles. Glyphs:  Glyph C in the headdress and above it, five glyphs for corn grain.

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Key:  ROM 1912 Actual Location:  Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada. Collection:  Constantino Rickards Registration:  HM 1912 Provenance:  Zaachila, District of Zimatlán, Oaxaca. Measurements:  38 cm. Color:  Beige clay with a beige coating. Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD   Click to view Chronology Glyphs:  Glyph C in the headdress flanked by two ears of corn.

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Key:  ROM 335 Actual Location:  Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada. Collection:  Constantino Rickards Registration:  HM 335 and HM 1931 (base) Provenance:  Zaachila, District of Zimatlán, Oaxaca. Measurements:  35.5 cm. Color:  Grey clay. Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD   Click to view Chronology Comments:  The legs of this piece are broken and are falling off the vessel. Glyphs:  Glyph C in the headdress flanked by two ears of corn.

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