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Key:  MNA 6-1546 Actual Location:  National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City, Mexico. Collection:  Francisco Belmar #21 Registration:  6-1546 Provenance:  Huitzo, Oaxaca. Measurements:  17 cm. Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Caso and Bernal 1952: 43, fig. 53. Comments:  This piece has been glued together. Glyphs:  Glyph C in the headdress. Five glyphs for corn above glyph C.

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Key:  MNA 6-596 Actual Location:  National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City, Mexico (exhibited). Collection:  Fernando Sologuren #521 Registration:  6-596 Provenance:  Ixtepeji, Oaxaca. Measurements:  21 cm. Chronology:  Pitao 350 - 500 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Bauer's photograph, circa 1900, in König and Kröfges 2001: 130; Caso and Bernal 1952: 22, fig. 14. Comments:  Effigy vessel with Cocijo mask. Glyphs:  Glyph C in the headdress.

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Key:  MNA 6-17 Actual Location:  National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City, Mexico. Registration:  6-17 Provenance:  Tomb 6, no. 1, Monte Albán, Oaxaca. Measurements:  19 cm. Chronology:  MA IIIA (Caso and Bernal 1952: 155); Pitao 350 - 500 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Caso 1932: 16, figs. 26 & 27; Caso and Bernal 1952: 155-156 & 158, fig. 268. Comments:  Found in tomb 6, next to a variety of ceramic pieces. A feather seems to be hanging next to one of the ears. The headdress is decorated with shells and the human figure is wearing a mask with feline traits.

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Key:  MNA Carretera Grande Actual Location:  National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City, Mexico. Provenance:  Carretera Grande (Large Highway), Monte Albán, Oaxaca. Measurements:  18 cm. Color:  Reddish brown clay. Chronology:  Late Xoo 600 - 800 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Caso and Bernal 1952: 48-49, fig. 68; Paddock 1966: 135, fig. 117. Comments:  This piece is one of a series of four. It features many of the traits Caso called the "L God". It carries an ear of corn in the left hand and a plant (?) in the other hand. The figure is framed by alligator's eyes. Paddock uses this piece to designate the period MA IV (Xoo phase). Glyphs:  Glyph C in the headdress.

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Key:  MNA 6-778 Actual Location:  National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City, Mexico. Registration:  6-778 Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  17 cm. Chronology:  Pitao 350 - 500 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Caso and Bernal 1952: 87, fig. 138. Comments:  The figure is holding a non-identified object in the right hand. Possibly the spine of the maguey plant. Glyphs:  Glyph 6 D in the headdress.

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Key:  MNA 6-6006 Actual Location:  National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City, Mexico (exhibited). Registration:  6-06 Provenance:  Platform E, offering 10, no. 113, Monte Albán, Oaxaca. Measurements:  24 cm. Color:  Grey clay with red pigment. Chronology:  MA IIIA (Caso and Bernal 1952: 55); Pitao 350 - 500 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Caso and Bernal 1952: 55-56, fig. 80. Comments:  Caso and Bernal comment that this vessel is a "human figure with tiger mask".

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Key:  MNA 6-4849 Actual Location:  National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City, Mexico (exhibited). Registration:  6-49 Provenance:  Tomb 77, No. 3, Monte Albán, Oaxaca. Measurements:  28 cm. Color:  Grey clay with bright red pigment. Chronology:  MA IIIA (Caso and Bernal 1952: 150); Pitao 350 - 500 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Caso 1935: 26-27; Caso and Bernal 1952: 150, fig. 251. Comments:  This piece was found by Alfonso Caso in the period PMA IV (1934-1935). Also see MNA t/77, no. 26.

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Key:  MNA 6-6439 Actual Location:  National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City, Mexico (exhibited). Registration:  cat. 6-6439/ Inv. 10-3284. Provenance:  Tomb 103, no. 3, Monte Albán, Oaxaca. Measurements:  50.8 x 44.8 cm. Color:  Dark grey clay with green, yellow and red pigment. Chronology:  MA IIIB (Caso and Bernal 1952: 252); Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Caso 1938: 70-71 & 74, figs. 89 & 90; Toscano 1944: 436; Caso & Bernal 1952: 252-254, fig. 396; Romero 1958: 182, plate XXXV; Paddock 1966: 145, fig. 140; Bernal 1979: 53; Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico, 1990: 156, fig. 56; Marcus & Flannery 1996: 209 & Comments:  Excavated by Caso in their sixth field season (1937) and found at a few centimeters from the North wall of the tomb. There were three other pieces in the chamber and two burials (see pieces MNA t/103 1 and 33). Caso and Bernal believe that this piece is the representation of God Xipe Totec (Caso 1938: 74 and Caso & Bernal 1952: 252). Flannery and Marcus (1996: 209), on the other hand, maintain that this piece is the representation of a governor dressed as a warrior. There is no doubt that the human figure is wearing a human skin and is holding his victim's head in the left hand.

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Key:  MAEF 1 Actual Location:  Anthropology and Ethnography Museum of Florence, Italy. Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  aprox. 36 cm. Color:  Beige clay Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Comments:  A large portion of its headdress is missing. Glyphs:  Epsilon glyph hanging from an ear with a bar numeral in the middle. A glyph C in the headdress and the glyph for corn field in the pectoral.

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Key:  MNA 6-6443 Actual Location:  National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City, Mexico (exhibited). Registration:  6-6443 Provenance:  Tomb 103, no. 33, Monte Albán, Oaxaca. Measurements:  35 x 24 cm. Color:  Dark grey clay totally painted with red pigment, except for the conical hat whic Chronology:  MA IIIB (Caso and Bernal 1952: 252); Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Caso 1938: 72 & 74, fig. 91; Caso & Bernal 1952: 119-120, figs. 185-186; Romero 1958: 220, plate XLVI; Gendrop 1970: 139, fig. 160; Carmona 1995: 165, fig. 4. Comments:  This piece was excavated by Caso in their sixth field season (1937) and was found at a few centimeters from the South wall of the tomb. There were three other effigy vessels in the chamber and two burials (see pieces MNA t/103 1 and 3). Caso and Bernal (1952: 119) use this piece as an archetype of the effigy vessels known as "companions" (accompanying pieces). Glyphs:  Pectoral (glyph for corn field) decorated with glyphs for corn grain.

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Key:  MNA Ent. IV-56, no. 4 Actual Location:  National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City, Mexico (exhibited). Provenance:  Burial IV-56, no. 4, Monte Albán, Oaxaca. Measurements:  20 cm. Chronology:  Transition (Caso and Bernal 1952: 153); Tani 200 - 350 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Caso and Bernal 1952: 153, fig. 262 Comments:  This piece was found with another similar, but not identical piece (Caso and Bernal 1952: 151, fig. 151). Glyphs:  Glyph C is probably missing from the headdress. See ROM 653 as a point of comparison.

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Key:  TEO 2 Actual Location:  University of the Americas, Cholula, Puebla, Mexico. Provenance:  Well W1N9-W2N9, layer 2, Oaxacan neighborhood, Teotihuacan, Mexico. Measurements:  13 cm. Chronology:  Transition MA II-IIIA (Rattray 1987: 245); Tani 200 - 350 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Rattray 1987: 245, 245 & 246, fig. 1. Comments:  This piece was found in a tomb in Teotihuacan, associated with the bones of three individuals. Two of these burials were primary and the third, maybe secondary. The rest of the offering was typically Teotihuacan. Rattray says: "It is certain that the urn was already incomplete when the burial took place (1987: 245) [...] This urn corresponds to the perfect Monte Albán style, completely made of clay from the Valley of Mexico (Sayre and Harbottle 1979, Catalog no. 1: 202). Glyphs:  An early variation of glyph C in the headdress.

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Key:  UPM NA6359 Actual Location:  University of Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia, United States. Collection:  Fernando Sologuren Registration:  NA6359 Provenance:  Unknown Chronology:  Tani 200 - 350 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Boos 1966b: 264, fig. 242. Comments:  This piece is shown in a photo of the Sologuren Collection (Ibero-American Institute, Seler Collection, Box 70, Mixtec or Zapotec "Alterhümer III"). How the piece ended up in this museum is unknown, but it was probably through an exchange. Glyphs:  A glyph C in the headdress.

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Key:  UPM 29.41.707 Actual Location:  University of Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia, United States. Registration:  29.41.707 Provenance:  District of Etla, Oaxaca. Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Comments:  Compare with ROM 1936, MFR s/n 6, SMI 115002, MCO 0679 and KERR 6460. Glyphs:  A glyph C in the headdress. The throne is decorated with the glyph for corn grain.

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Key:  UPM 29.41.726 Actual Location:  University of Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia, United States. Registration:  29.41.726 Provenance:  Miahuatlán, Oaxaca. Measurements:  28 cm. Color:  Beige with traces of red pigment on face and ears. Chronology:  Pitao 350 - 500 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Mason 1929:198; Richardson 1932: 49, fig. 3. Comments:  Unique piece. It has been called "King of the Tapir Hunter". However, the headdress worn by this human figure probably represents a deer's head. See MM 1970:733 and MCO.

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