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Key:  SMI 166077 Actual Location:  Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., United States. Collection:  Louis Gustave Bellon; George Gustave Heye. Heye purchased this artefact at auction in Paris in 1928. Registration:  Col. Bellón no. 199; Old number from MAI 16/6077; New number from SMI 166077.000 Provenance:  San Lorenzo Cacaotepec, Oaxaca (Urcid 1992: 415) Measurements:  19 cm. Color:  Light grey clay with traces of white paint. Chronology:  MA IIIA (Boos 1966b: 39); Pitao 350 - 500 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  AMNH, Saville Archive, box 28, Inventory of the Bellon collection; Boos 1966b: 39, fig. 14. Comments:  Seated figure with Cocijo mask. Glyphs:  The notched bead in front represents coefficient 1. Glyph J in the headdress (1 J).

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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:  BMS 15997 Actual Location:  Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo, United States. Registration:  C 15997/Acc. 47151 Provenance:  Ejutla, Oaxaca Measurements:  47.5 x 52.5 cm. Color:  Grey clay Chronology:  Pitao 350 - 500 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Dollero 1911: 813; Boos 1966b: 126, fig. 108; Winter 1994: 146. Comments:  According to a note published by Dollero (1911: 813), this piece comes from Ejutla and this author lets us guess that it was part of an exhibition in town. Part of the glyphic information got loose from the cartouche. The cartouche hangs from the owl's neck. This piece was bought in 1947 by Berkely Galleries (personal communication with Kevin Smith, Curator for Mesoamerica, Buffalo Science Museum, 1998). Glyphs:  The owl's mask in the headdress represents glyph F.

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Key:  SMI 114904 Actual Location:  Smithsonian Institution, Washington, United States. Collection:  Louis H. Ayme. Registration:  SMI 114904, Acc.#16107 Provenance:  Miahuatlán, Oaxaca. Measurements:  17.5 x 10 cm. Color:  Grey clay with a bright red-pigment coating. Chronology:  MA IIIA (Boos 1966b: 46); Pitao 350 - 500 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Boos 1964: 89, plateIX; Boos 1966b: 46, fig. 22. Comments:  Butterfly head in the headdress.

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Key:  BM 1849/6-29/28 Actual Location:  British Museum, London, England. Collection:  John Wetherall Registration:  1849/6-29/28 Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  18 cm. Color:  Light orange-yellow clay. Chronology:  Pitao 350 - 500 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Boos 1964a: 86-87, plate VII. Comments:  A butterfly head in the headdress.

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Key:  MRT 2 Actual Location:  Mexican Museum of Prehispanic Art, Rufino Tamayo, Oaxaca, Mexico. Collection:  Rufino Tamayo Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  aprox. 20 cm. Color:  Grey clay with red pigment. Chronology:  Pitao 350 - 500 AD   Click to view Chronology Comments:  The nose of glyph U in the headdress is broken. Glyphs:  The figure has three numerals on the chest and glyph U (3U) in the headdress.

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Key:  AMNH 30.0/8 Actual Location:  American Museum of Natural History, New York, United States. Collection:  Marshall H. Saville Registration:  30.0/8 Provenance:  Cuilapan, Oaxaca Measurements:  22 x 26 cm. Color:  Light grey clay Chronology:  Pitao 350 - 500 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Boos 1964a: 77, plate II. Comments:  Probably a headdress fragment from a large effigy vessel. Corresponds to the butterfly.

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Key:  SOTH 1987.164 Actual Location:  Unknown Collection:  Sotheby Parke Bennet Auction, 18 November 1997 Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  40 cm. Chronology:  Pitao 350 - 500 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Auction's catalog, Sotheby's 1997: fig. 164. Comments:  The element coming out of the pot seems to be a liquid with an eye. Glyphs:  Glyph C in the headdress.

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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:  CPA 3 Actual Location:  Unknown Collection:  Anonymous private collection Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  20 cm. Color:  Beige clay. Face and numeral bar painted in red. Chronology:  Pitao 350 - 500 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Rediscovered Masterpieces of Mesoamerica: Mexico-Guatemala-Honduras, 1985: fig. 140. Glyphs:  The beak-shaped head piece from which the face is sticking out could correspond to glyph X. The piece's head seems to rest on a numeral bar (5 X?).

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Key:  CPA 8 Actual Location:  Unknown. Collection:  Anonymous private collection. Before, at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica. Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  47 cm. Chronology:  Pitao 350 - 500 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Furst and Furst 1980: 52; Urcid 1991: fig. 11. Comments:  According to the curator of the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Paul D. Schweizer, this piece is no longer part of the collection. Present location unknown. Glyphs:  There are two dot numerals in the loincloth. The glyph is displayed in two parallel lines crossing over eyes and face. It results in a correspondence with glyph P (2P); but the reading is ambiguous because the glyph could also be the pectoral's cartouche.

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Key:  KERR 1 Actual Location:  New York, United States. Collection:  Justin Kerr's private collection. Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  48 cm. Color:  Grey clay with traces of white paint. Red paint on mouth and ear pieces. Chronology:  Pitao 350 - 500 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Easby et al. 1970: fig. 157. Glyphs:  Numerals are not shown in the traditional way, because there are five instead of a bar (see ROM 1879). There are two numerals above the belt, on the chest and five numerals, in a row, underneath; so the coefficient could be 7. The glyph is Ñ (7 Ñ)

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Key:  MCT 2 Actual Location:  Civic Museum of Turin, Italy. Collection:  Zaverio Calpini , circa 1876; Callegari gives an earlier date 1864 (1931: 514). Provenance:  Nochistlán o Xoxocotlán (Callegari 1931: 514). Measurements:  23.5 cm. Chronology:  Pitao 350 - 500 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Africa, America, Australasia: the Ethnological Collections, Civic Museum of Turin, 1978: 66, fig. 17. Glyphs:  In the headdress, glyph M "Cocijo", seen sideways. Beside the jaw, numeral 1 (1 M).

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Key:  GLS 1 Actual Location:  Unknown Collection:  Guy Loudmer Auction, France. Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  14 cm. Color:  Grey clay Chronology:  Pitao 350 - 500 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Guy Loudmer auction's catalog, Precolombian Art, fig. 32, Monday, December 9, 1991. Comments:  Central vessel of a series of three (See GLS 2 for accompanying pieces). Glyphs:  Under the mask of Cocijo, two numerals, which could be 2 M? but also 2 knot because of the bow on the chest. Glyph C in the headdress.

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Key:  GLS 2 Actual Location:  Unknown Collection:  Guy Loudmer Auction, France. Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  12.8 x 12.5 cm. Color:  Grey clay Chronology:  Pitao 350 - 500 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Guy Loudmer auction's catalog, Precolombian Art, fig. 32, Monday, December 9, 1991. Comments:  A vessel from a series of three. Two are the same and are like this example. For central vessel, see GLS 1. Glyphs:  Glyph C in the headdress.

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