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Key:  MCS 2 Actual Location:  Community Museum, Suchiquiltongo, Oaxaca, Mexico. Provenance:  Tomb 5, Cerro de la Campana (Hill of the Bell), Oaxaca Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD   Click to view Chronology Comments:  A standing effigy of a dog or old jaguar. On the right hand, we can see fragments of a rope.

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Key:  MCSJM 2 Actual Location:  Community Museum, San José Mogote, Oaxaca, Mexico. Provenance:  San José Mogote, Oaxaca. Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Comments:  Effigy of a woman sitting on her haunches. Glyphs:  Two numerals and glyph J (corn) in the headdress (2 J).

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Key:  MFR s/n 1 Actual Location:  Unknown Provenance:  Unknown Chronology:  Pitao 350 - 500 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Paddock 1978, p. 55, fig. 12. Comments:  Drawing based on a picture by John Paddock, circa 1968, in Philippa Shaplin's hands. In the headdress, a mask of Tlaloc with the same iconography used in the Central Altiplano. For other examples, see EMB MNA 6-635, cm.A 44.78, MFVV 55.158 and MDO 32. For an analysis of this type, see Sellen 2002: 9.

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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:  IBC 1993-56 Actual Location:  National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), Cuilapan Warehouse? Oaxaca, Mexico. Provenance:  Burial 1993-56, object 1-10, South platform, area PSLP-S2, Monte Albán, Oaxaca. Measurements:  aprox. 46 cm. (base y tapa juntos) Chronology:  MA IIIB-IV (Winter et al. 1994:191); Xoo 600 - 800 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Winter et al. 1994: 191-197; figs. a-g (193-195) and figs. a-d (196-197). Comments:  Five vessels of the box-with-lid type were found in a grave without association to a burial. Maybe the vessels were removed during a pillage of tombs 116 and 117, excavated by Alfonso Caso (1942: 183). Glyphs:  A glyph C in the headdress.

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Key:  AMNH 30.2/6099 Actual Location:  American Museum of Natural History, New York, United States Collection:  Heinrich Hinrichs Registration:  30.2/6099 Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  29.4 x 20 cm. Color:  Grey clay with traces of blue (feathers in headdress) & red (nose, corn ears, maxtlatl) yellow (pectoral). Chronology:  Late Xoo 600 - 800 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Color drawing by Seler (1888) with the indication that it comes from the Heinrich Hinrichs Collection; Eubanks 1999: 125-126, fig. 99. Comments:  The right hand has been restored. Seler's drawing shows that the left hand is missing and the headdress does not have any broken parts, so it is possible that there may be two pieces. The color drawing presented here is based on Seler's watercolor.

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Key:  MRB A.AM 69-2 Actual Location:  Royal Museums of Art and History of Brussels, Belgium. Registration:  A.AM 69-2 Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  20.8 x 37.2 cm. Color:  Grey and brown clay. Chronology:  MA IIIB (Graulich 1987: 135); Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Graulich 1987: 135 and plate 106. Comments:  It is not exactly a vessel, but rather a plaque. However, its iconography is similar to that of vessels. Glyphs:  Three visible numerals. Probably one fell off. The head piece worn by the human figure corresponds to glyph V "alligator" (4V).

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Key:  RSM 1948.289 Actual Location:  Royal Scottish Museum. Edinburgh, Scotland. Collection:  Chavero; Vice-Earl Cowdray. Registration:  1948.289 Provenance:  Tyllo, Oaxaca. Measurements:  34 x 25 cm. Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Boos 1966: 38, fig. 13 Comments:  The human figure is wearing a Cocijo mask. Glyphs:  Two epsilon or blood glyphs hang from the ear pieces.

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Key:  RSM 1948.287 Actual Location:  Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, Scotland. Collection:  Vice-Earl Cowdray Registration:  1948.287 Provenance:  Santa Inés, Oaxaca. Measurements:  26 x 17 cm. Color:  Grey clay with traces of red pigment. Chronology:  Tani 200 - 350 AD Pitao 350 - 500 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Boos 1966: 218, fig. 200. Comments:  The human figure is wearing a mask with feline traits.

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Key:  RHFM 1 Actual Location:  Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington, United States. Provenance:  Unknown Chronology:  Pitao 350 - 500 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Boos 1966: 93, fig. 75. Comments:  The human figure is wearing an alligator's headdress.

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Key:  CPA 4 Actual Location:  Private collection in Mexico Collection:  Kurt Stavenhagen Registration:  ST-L10-0105 Provenance:  Unknown Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Boos 1996: 62, fig. 42 Comments:  Elaborate headdress with two figures wearing owl helmets that flank a central figure representing Xocani.

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Key:  CPA 5 Actual Location:  Anonymous private collection in Mexico Provenance:  Unknown Chronology:  Pitao 350 - 500 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Boos 1966: 78, fig. 576. Comments:  This human figure wears a headdress with a Cocijo mask. On both sides of the headdress, strips with alligator eyes can be seen.

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Key:  SMI 115151 Actual Location:  Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., United States. Collection:  Louis H. Ayme. Acquired by the Museum on 29 July 1885. Registration:  Cat. 115151, Acc. No. 16290 Provenance:  Zaachila, Oaxaca. Measurements:  40 x 34.5 cm. Color:  Light grey clay with a bright red coating. Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Boos 1966: 130, fig. 115 and p. 64, color plate; Whitecotton 1985: 87. Comments:  This piece is used as the lid of another container, maybe a brazier. There is an alligator's mask in the headdress, and above it, another mask, of a butterfly. The human figure is holding a bird in each hand, probably quetzal birds.

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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:  MCSJM 1 Actual Location:  Community Museum, San José Mogote, Oaxaca, Mexico. Provenance:  San José Mogote, Oaxaca. Chronology:  Pe 300 - 100 BC   Click to view Chronology Comments:  Brazier of a human figure with Cocijo face. In the headdress, we can see the mask of a being with the nose rolled up backwards and, above it, a glyph C. The glyph C is not engraved, but it is possible that the details were applied with paint. Glyphs:  Glyph C in the headdress.

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