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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