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. | |
| | Click to view high resolution in a new window select this image for review |