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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:  MNA t/97 Actual Location:  National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City, Mexico. Provenance:  No. 1, Niche E, tomb 97, Monte Albán, Oaxaca. Measurements:  11 cm. Chronology:  MA IIIB (Caso and Bernal 1952: 38); Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Caso and Bernal 1952: 39, fig. 45. Comments:  This urn is made of unfired clay.

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Key:  MNA t/104, no. 2 Actual Location:  National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City, Mexico. Provenance:  No. 2, Niche W, Tomb 104, Monte Albán, Oaxaca. Measurements:  15 cm. Chronology:  MA IIIB (Caso and Bernal, 1952:38); Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Caso and Bernal 1952: 38 & 39, fig. 43. Glyphs:  A glyph C in the headdress.

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Key:  SOTH 1994.133 Actual Location:  Unknown Collection:  Sotheby Parke Bennet Auction, 15 November 1994. Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  55.2 cm. Color:  Grey clay. Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Auction's catalog, Sotheby's 1994: fig. 133. Glyphs:  The headdress represents glyph V (alligator). There are three numerals 2 in the headdress and one under the face (3V).

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Key:  MCO 10-140700 Actual Location:  Museum of Cultures of Oaxaca, City of Oaxaca, Mexico (exhibited). Registration:  INAH 10-140700 Provenance:  Courtyard of tomb 103, Monte Albán, Oaxaca. Measurements:  27 cm. Color:  Grey clay Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Caso and Bernal 1952: 22, fig. 13. Comments:  Caso and Bernal excavated five of these boxes during the Sixth period (1937). The boxes were found in a row, in the courtyard of tomb 103. Caso and Bernal thought that there were lids for these boxes, but there is no evidence. One is exhibited at the Museum of Cultures of Oaxaca and the other seems to be part of the Rufino Tamayo Collection, although there is no explanation of why a piece from an excavation ended up in private hands. The boxes were broken, although the piece at the Rufino Tamayo Museum has been restored. Glyphs:  The glyph for corn field decorates the four sides of the box.

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Key:  MCO s/n 2 Actual Location:  Museum of Cultures of Oaxaca, City of Oaxaca, Mexico (exhibited). Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  aprox. un metro de altura. Color:  Light grey clay. Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Comments:  This piece stands out because it is almost a meter high.

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Key:  CB 1 Actual Location:  Bustamante Vasconcelos Foundation, Oaxaca City, Oaxaca, Mexico. Collection:  Mr. Manuel J. Bustamante Vasconcelos Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  42 x 30 cm. Color:  Traces of red pigment on face. Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Comments:  From one side of the headdress, a jaguar head sticks out, next to a plaited cord. The human figure is wearing a cape decorated with small dots and is holding a bag of incense.

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Key:  CB 2 Actual Location:  Bustamante Vasconcelos Foundation, Oaxaca City, Oaxaca, Mexico. Collection:  Mr. Manuel J. Bustamante Vasconcelos Provenance:  San Pedro Chicozapotes, District of Cuicatlán (communication with Mr. Bustamante) Measurements:  39 x 27 cm. Color:  Grey clay. Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Comments:  Similar braziers are published in Caso and Bernal 1952: 88-90. Also see EMB 35248.

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Key:  CB 3 Actual Location:  Bustamante Vasconcelos Foundation, Oaxaca City, Oaxaca, Mexico. Collection:  Mr. Manuel J. Bustamante Vasconcelos Provenance:  San Juan Atepec, District of Ixtlán de Juárez, Oaxaca (communication with Mr. Bustamante). Measurements:  41 x 32 cm. Color:  Grey clay Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Glyphs:  A glyph C in the headdress.

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Key:  CB 5 Actual Location:  Bustamante Vasconcelos Foundation, Oaxaca City, Oaxaca, Mexico. Collection:  Mr. Manuel J. Bustamante Vasconcelos Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  22 x 16.5 cm. Color:  Grey clay Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Comments:  On the back of the broken headdress, which is the hair falling on the figure's shoulders, a design of alligator's eyes is engraved. The front part of the headdress probably had a glyph C.

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Key:  CB 6 Actual Location:  Bustamante Vasconcelos Foundation, Oaxaca City, Oaxaca, Mexico. Collection:  Mr. Manuel J. Bustamante Vasconcelos Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  28.5 x 18 cm. Color:  Covered in bright red pigment. Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Glyphs:  A glyph C in the headdress.

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Key:  CB 8 Actual Location:  Bustamante Vasconcelos Foundation, Oaxaca City, Oaxaca, Mexico. Collection:  Mr. Manuel J. Bustamante Vasconcelos Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  26 x 27 cm. Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Comments:  Compare with MNA 6-636 and MFR 3745. The missing part could have been either a Cocijo face or the glyph for corn.

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Key:  MADR s/n 1 Actual Location:  Anahuacalli Museum, Diego Rivera, Mexico City, Mexico. Collection:  Diego Rivera Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  aprox. 36 cm. Color:  Beige clay with traces of red pigment. Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Glyphs:  Corresponds to glyph ñ

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Key:  MFR 1225 Actual Location:  Frissell Museum, Mitla, Mexico. Collection:  Howard Leigh (date of purchase: 1954) Registration:  MFR 1225 / INAH 3313 Provenance:  Suchilquitongo, Oaxaca. Measurements:  78 x 52 cm. Color:  Grey clay with traces of red. Chronology:  MA IIIB (Howard Leigh, MFR card 1225); Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Boos 1966:99; Boos 1966: plate LXXXIX. Comments:  This monumental vessel is part of a series of four. Three are at the Frissell Museum (catalog numbers: 1225, 927 and 1240). This last piece is not complete, and only the head remains. The fourth piece is located in the Gardiner Museum in Canada (GM 83.1.179). The human figure represented is wearing an alligator's mask. While he was acting curator of the Frissell Musem, Howard Leigh ilegally sold one of the objects and had it removed from Mexico. Possibly he sold it to a man named "Davis" in New Orleans, United States. The piece was later sold to the Canadian George C. Gardiner through Sotheby Parke Bennet in 1975. Glyphs:  A glyph C in the headdress. The alligator's mask corresponds to glyph V.

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Key:  MNA t/104, nicho S.O. no. 1 Actual Location:  National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City, Mexico. Provenance:  Tomb 104, S-W niche, no. 1, Monte Albán, Oaxaca. Measurements:  26 cm. Chronology:  MA IIIB (Caso and Bernal, 1952:285); Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Caso and Bernal 1952: 285 & 289, fig. 438. Comments:  Representation of a woman. Found in the tomb's niche.

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