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Key:  MES 23.8.240 Actual Location:  Swedish Ethnographic Museum, Stockholm, Sweden. Collection:  August Edwin Paulson Registration:  23.8.240 Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  30.5 cm. Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Linné 1938: 138, plate 20. Comments:  Ears of corn can be seen in the headdress. Compare with the piece at the Amparo Museum (MAM 631) and with the piece at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH 30.3/2301A).

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Key:  MAM 631 Actual Location:  Amparo Museum, Puebla, Mexico. Collection:  Josué Sáenz Registration:  National Anthropology and History Institute (INAH) Reg. 58 P.F., piece 631 Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  124 x 50 x 30 dia. cm. Color:  Grey clay with traces of white paint. Red pigment in the vessel held in hands. Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Easby et al. 1970: fig. 161; Amparo Museum 1993: fig. 62. Comments:  A row of ears of corn can be seen in the headdress. Compare with the piece at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH 30.3/2301A) and the piece in the Paulson collection (MES 23.8.240). Glyphs:  Glyph C in the vessel held in hands.

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Key:  SOTH 1996.147 Actual Location:  Unknown Collection:  Jay C. Leff; Sotheby Parke Bennet Auction, 25 November 1996. Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  49.5 cm. Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Easby 1966; Linduff 1974: cover; auction's catalog, Sotheby's 1996: fig. 147. Comments:  This piece is probably the largest known urn corresponding to glyph Ñ. Glyphs:  This urn corresponds to glyph Ñ (headdress and mask). Four glyphs J in the headdress.

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Key:  MCT 1 Actual Location:  Civic Museum of Turin, Italy. Collection:  Cav. Zaverio Calpini , circa 1876; Callegari gives an earlier date 1864 (1931: 514). Provenance:  Nochistlán o Xoxocotlán (Callegari 1931: 514) Measurements:  34.3 cm. Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Africa, America, Australasia: the Ethnological Collections, Civic Museum of Turin, 1978: 65, fig. 12. Glyphs:  A glyph J in the headdress. There were probably 2 more, but the headdress is broken.

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Key:  MSMA 1993.23.3 Actual Location:  Site Museum, Monte Albán, Oaxaca, Mexico. Registration:  Burial 1993-23, no. 3, Monte Albán. Provenance:  South platform, West side, structure PSLP-S2, square 17, Monte Albán, Oaxaca. Measurements:  30 x 25 x 24 dia. cm. Color:  Beige clay Chronology:  MA IIIB-IV (Winter et al. 1995:126); Xoo 600 - 800 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Winter et al. 1995: 126-127. figs. 33b, 34a, 35b. Comments:  This piece was found in a grave associated with a skeleton and a bat's claw vessel. According to Winter the grave was looted in pre-Hispanic times and these pieces were removed. The effigy vessel was found in two pieces, at different ends of the tomb. When the piece was found the figure was holding a bag of incense (see excavation photo, Winter et al. 1995: 127) but the report does not describe this fragment and it is currently without it. The figure is wearing a mouth mask (type 2). To compare this piece with another, more complete, see SOTH 1976.147.

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Key:  MRT 3 Actual Location:  Mexican Museum of Prehispanic Art, Rufino Tamayo, Oaxaca, Mexico. Collection:  Rufino Tamayo Provenance:  Unknown Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Comments:  This large urn of Cocijo is part of a series. There are at least two more of the series, but there were probably up to five pieces in total. One piece is held at the Birmingham Museum in England (BIRM 1965.331) and another is in Stanford, United States (SUAM 1997.167). The said pieces are more complete than the piece illustrated here. Glyphs:  Glyph C 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:  MRT 1 Actual Location:  Mexican Museum of Prehispanic Art, Rufino Tamayo, Oaxaca, Mexico. Collection:  Rufino Tamayo Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  aprox. 30 cm. Color:  Grey clay Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD   Click to view Chronology Comments:  Representation of a bat. Glyphs:  Two epsilon glyphs in the corners of the mouth. The eyebrows are shaped like bar numerals.

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Key:  AMNH 30/6955 Actual Location:  American Museum of Natural History, New York, United States. Collection:  Marshall H. Saville Registration:  30/6955 Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  19 x 26.7 cm. Color:  Light grey clay with an even lighter grey coating. Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Boos 1964a: 77-78, plate I. Comments:  This piece is a large head of a butterfly.

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Key:  AMNH 30.3/2301A Actual Location:  American Museum of Natural History, New York, United States Collection:  Ernest Erickson Registration:  30.3/2301A and 30.3/2301B Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  38 x 29 cm. Color:  Grey clay with traces of white stucco. Chronology:  MA IIIB-IV (Eubanks 1999: 123); Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Boos 1968: 195, fig. 175; Eubanks 1999: 123-125, fig. 98; Bigelow Taylor 1988: 54, fig. 57 Comments:  Compare with the piece at the Amparo Museum (MAM 631) and the piece of the Paulson Collection (MES 23.8.240). According to a catalogue published by the AMNH there is another fragment of this urn consisting of two hands clasping a small pot (30.3/2301B). On the pot is the milpa glyph (see Bigelow Taylor 1988: 54, fig. 57). Glyphs:  Probably had a glyph C attached to its forehead. Dating:  TL by David Zimmerman, 1974, authentic. Information reported by Eubanks (1999: 124).

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Key:  SWM 1763.G.1 Actual Location:  Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, United States. Collection:  Donated by Mr. Millard Sheets. Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  65 cm. Color:  Brown clay. Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Rozaire 1966: 41, fig. a; Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico and Central America 1968, fig. 227. Comments:  This piece is missing part of the headdress and the central part of the pot in the hands. Glyphs:  Glyph C in the headdress.

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Key:  MBR 38.52 Actual Location:  Brooklyn Museum, New York, United States. Collection:  Fondo Carl H. Desilver. Registration:  38.52 Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  28.5 x 18 cm. Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Winter 1994a: 152-153. Comments:  The figure holds an unknown object in the hands. Glyphs:  Glyph C in the headdress.

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Key:  MES 23.8.307 Actual Location:  Swedish Ethnographic Museum, Stockholm, Sweden. Collection:  August Edwin Paulson Registration:  23.8.307 Provenance:  Tuxtepec, Oaxaca. Measurements:  37.9 x 31.9 cm. Color:  Front part in red. Traces of green paint. Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Linné 1938: 160, plate 31. Comments:  The piece has been partially restored. According to Linné, it was wearing a Cocijo mask. Glyphs:  Glyph J in the headdress. Two alligator eyes in the throne's back and above these, two glyphs for sprouted corn.

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Key:  MES 29.4.1 Actual Location:  Swedish Ethnographic Museum, Stockholm, Sweden. Collection:  August Edwin Paulson Registration:  29.4.1 Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  29.5 cm. Color:  Traces of red paint on face and on front side of piece. Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Linné 1938: 136, plate 19; Urcid 1993: 154, fig 15 (2). Comments:  Urcid (1993: 154) maintains that the figure in the headdress is the Zapotec Xicani. Glyphs:  Glyph F on the chest. The glyph in the base corresponds to glyph #22 "heart" (Urcid 1993: 150).

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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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