Zapotec Effigy Vessels

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Key: MNA t/35

Actual Location: National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City, Mexico.

Provenance: Tomb 35, Monte Albán, Oaxaca.

Measurements: 17 cm.

Chronology: Xoo 600 - 800 AD

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Reference: Caso and Bernal 1952: 73, fig. 118.

Comments: Drawing based on Mendoza.

Glyphs: Necklace of the epsilon or "blood" glyph.

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Key: MQB 34.13.3663

Actual Location: Musée du quai Branly (Previously Musée de l’Homme), Paris, France.

Collection: Auguste Genin

Registration: 34.13.3663

Provenance: Monte Albán, Oaxaca.

Measurements: 16.6 x 11.8 cm.

Color: Grey clay with a lighter grey coating.

Chronology: Xoo 600 - 800 AD

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Reference: Boos 1966b: 409, fig. 378. Urcid 1992: vol. II,102, fig. 4. (glyph only)

Comments: Piece with two glasses adhered to the back.

Glyphs: The figure's headdress corresponds to glyph Ñ. A bar under the face and two dots in the hair (2 Ñ).

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Key: MFR s/n 3

Actual Location: Unknown (before at Frissell Museum).

Provenance: Unknown

Measurements: 54 cm.

Chronology: MA IV (Boos 1966a: 63); Xoo 600 - 800 AD

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Reference: Boos 1966a: 63, fig. 43; Paddock 1966: 148, fig. 150.

Comments: This figure is holding a type of staff in the left hand and a shield in the right arm. A bag of incense, with the head of an animal, probably a jaguar, hangs from the headdress. Bags of this type feature in headdresses of human figures carved on jambs in San Lázaro Zautla (cf. Urcid 1991: 10). Behind the bag is the head of a bird, perhaps a quetzal, placed on one side. In December 1959, while this piece was being taken to an exhibition, the transport car had an accident near Huitzo. It was stolen from the scene of the accident and never recovered.

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Key: SMI 115033

Actual Location: Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., United States.

Collection: Louis H. Ayme

Registration: Cat. No. 115033, Acc. No. 16107

Provenance: Chicomezuchil, Oaxaca.

Measurements: 15.5 x 25.5 cm.

Color: Grey clay with a grey/white coating.

Chronology: MA IIIA (Boos 1966b: 347) MA IV (Eubanks 1999: 150); Xoo 600 - 800 AD

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Reference: Wellhausen et al. 1952: 15; Boos 1966b: 347. fig. 321; Eubanks 1999: 150-151, fig. 121.

Comments: This feminine figure's headdress is broken, but it could have been glyph J.

Dating: TL by David Zimmerman, 1975, reported by Eubanks 1999:150.

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Key: MNA 6-2108

Actual Location: Previously at the Museum of Cultures of Oaxaca.

Collection: José Juan Canseco 1853; Manuel Ortega Reyes 1860; Museum of Oaxaca.

Registration: 6-2108; 11290

Provenance: Ejutla (Martínez Gracida 1910: plate 102-3); Hacienda of San Isidro, Xoxo (Seler circa 1888).

Measurements: más de 60 cm.

Color: Green, red, yellow and light blue.

Chronology: MA IIIB (Boos 1966b: 388); Xoo 600-800 AD

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Reference: Drawing in Müller 1998 [1864]: 82; drawing by Seler 1889; Photo: shelf at the Museum of Oaxaca, circa 1900, in Jesús Galindo and Villa 1905: plate 19; Boos 1966b: 388, fig. 359 (photo attributed to Marshall H. Saville).

Comments: Two provenances have been reported for this piece: Xoxocotlán and Ejutla, and the most reliable one is the latter, reported by Martínez Gracida (1910: unpublished) (see: Sellen, The Lost Drummer... 2005). The human figure carries on his back a large pot decorated with beads that could represent a drum. Thanks to a drawing by Edward Seler (Ibero-American Institute) and a description by Paso and Troncoso (1893), it was possible to reconstitute the object's original colors that today are no longer visible to the naked eye. Many forgeries have been inspired by this artifact, dating from around 1915.

Glyphs: The figure wears glyph G "deer", unfolded, as headdress (see Sellen 2005).

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Key: COWD 1

Actual Location: Unknown

Collection: Vice- Earl of Cowdray

Provenance: Unknown

Measurements: 34 cm.

Chronology: MA IV (Boos 1966b: 343); Xoo 600 - 800 AD

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Reference: Boos1966b: 343, fig. 314.

Comments: There is doubt on the authenticity of this piece. (See ROM 1944).

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Key: ROM 1396

Actual Location: Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada

Collection: Constantino Rickards

Registration: HM 1396 / 917.4.41

Provenance: without provenance

Measurements: 33.5 cm.

Color: Dark grey clay with vestiges of green.

Chronology: Xoo 600 - 800 AD

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Reference: Boos 1964: plate IV; Boos 1966: 83, fig. 63.

Comments: A very similar piece exists in the Museé du quay Branly in Paris, but the bird face in the headdress is replaced with glyph E (cf. MQB 87.101.47).

Glyphs: In the headdress the glyph F is placed over the glyph C.

Dating: UNAM test #100364: authentic

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Key: YUAG 29.19.1958

Actual Location: Yale University Art Gallery (lent by Fred Olsen).

Collection: Acquision 1903. Originally from Enrique Juan Palacios, Reg. #6 (INAH); Fred Olsen.

Registration: 29.19.1958 (Eubanks gives number 1973.88.10. Why two numbers? Are there two pieces?)

Provenance: Unknown

Measurements: 44.5 cm.

Color: Traces of paint.

Chronology: MA IIIB (Boos 1966b: 185, Eubanks 1999: 117); Xoo 600 - 800 AD

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Reference: Boos 1966b: 185, fig. 164; Eubanks 1999: 117-118, fig. 93.

Comments: This piece is one of a series. The total number of pieces in the series is unknown, but there are at least two. The other piece is published in an auction's catalog (Parke-Bennet Galleries, 23 May 1970, fig. 76). The auction's piece is identical, except for a frame of volutes behind the figure. It is very likely that the piece of the Olsen Collection had this frame as well, but it fell off at some point and that is why the piece has been herein reproduced with the reconstructed volutes. Compare with MNA 6-6754.

Glyphs: Glyph C in the headdress flanked by two ears of corn.

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Key: BELMAR 1

Actual Location: Unknown, probably National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico.

Collection: Francisco Belmar (#37?)

Provenance: Unknown

Chronology: MA IIIB (Boos 1966b: 79); Xoo 600 - 800 AD.

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Reference: Boos 1966: 79, fig. 58.

Glyphs: The glyph M (Cocijo) in the headdress is displayed on both sides of the same mask with a front view. Possibly two bars of five attached to the Cocijo's nose: 10?M. A glyph C in the headdress.

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Key: MNA 6-6031

Actual Location: National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City, Mexico

Registration: Cat. 6-6031 / INAH 10-221992

Provenance: Unknown

Measurements: 30 x 30.5 cm.

Color: Grey clay

Chronology: Xoo 600 - 800 AD

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Comments: This object was documented while on loan to the Arqueological Museum, Carlos Pellicer Cámara, in Villahermosa, Tabasco. The piece is missing a large part of its headdress, which has been intentionally cut off, as can be seen by the marks around the glyph C.

Glyphs: The glyph C in thye headdress.

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Key: MDO 55

Actual Location: Dolores Olmedo Museum, Mexico City, Mexico (exhibited).

Collection: Fernando Sologuren

Registration: Record from the National Anthropology and History Institute (INAH), P.F. 100, LO 55

Provenance: Unknown

Measurements: 14 x 10.5 cm.

Chronology: Xoo 600 - 800 AD

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Comments: The piece appears on a shelf of the Sologuren Collection, as shown by a photograph at the Ibero-American Institute, Seler Collection, box 69 "Mixteca u, Tzapoteco Alterhümer II". An effigy like this one was found as an offering on the dintel of tomb 6, mound 195, in Lambityeco. See photograph under Lind 2003: 53, fig. 10.

Glyphs: The Epsilon "blood" glyph in the corners of the mouth.

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Key: CPA 6

Actual Location: Anonymous private collection in Mexico.

Collection: Kurt Stavenhagen

Registration: ST-L9-0101

Provenance: Unknown

Chronology: Xoo 600 - 800 AD

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Reference: Boos 1966b: 285, fig. 263.

Comments: Effigy of a jaguar.

Glyphs: The glyph epsilon, or "blood," in the corners of the mouth.

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Key: MFVM 10.3493

Actual Location: Museum für Völkerkunde, Munich, Germany.

Collection: Fernando Sologuren 1880?

Registration: 10.3493

Provenance: La Ciénega, District of Zimatlán, Oaxaca (Peñafiel 1893: 20) Mitla, Oaxaca (Boos 1966b: 294).

Measurements: 7.7 x 16 cm.

Color: Grey clay

Chronology: Xoo 600 - 800 AD

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Reference: Peñafiel 1893: 20; Martínez Gracida 1910: plate 39; Woeller 1960: plate 27; Boos 1966b: 294, figs. 272, 273, 274; Urcid 1993: 159, fig. 13.

Comments: According to Martínez Gracida, this piece comes from La Ciénaga of Zimatlán, but a label on the piece says that it comes from Mitla. The piece has several details in the lower part.