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Key:  CPA 5 Actual Location:  Anonymous private collection in Mexico Collection:   Registration:   Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:   Color:   Chronology:  Pitao 350 - 500 AD  Click to view Chronology Reference:  Boos 1966: 78, fig. 576. Comments:  This human figure wears a headdress with a Cocijo mask. On both sides of the headdress, strips with alligator eyes can be seen. Glyphs:   Dating:

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Key:  EMB 11394 Actual Location:  Ethnographic Museum (Ethnologisches Museum), Berlin, Germany. Collection:  Seler 1887 and 1888 Registration:  IV Ca. 11394 Provenance:  Mitla, Oaxaca. Measurements:  28 cm. de largo. Tubo 7 cm. dia Color:  Brown clay with traces of white stucco and red pigment. Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD  Click to view Chronology Reference:   Comments:  This piece was probably used as a drain because it is shaped like a tube. A rectangular opening on the top means that the liquid would have run down the sides of the alligator or serpent's head . A human figure comes out of its jaws and the nose of this supernatural being is a jaguar's head. Glyphs:   Dating:

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Key:  MCO Of. In. del Templo X Actual Location:  Museum of Cultures of Oaxaca, City of Oaxaca, Mexico (exhibited). Collection:   Registration:   Provenance:  Offering inside Temple X, Monte Albán, Oaxaca. Measurements:  50 cm. Color:  Grey clay Chronology:  Transition (Caso and Bernal, 1952: 34); Tani 200 - 350 AD  Click to view Chronology Reference:  Caso and Bernal 1952: 33-34, fig. 33. Comments:  Human figure with Cocijo mask. Alligator eyes decorate the loincloth. Glyphs:   Dating:

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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. Dating:

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Key:  MFR 12619 Actual Location:  Frissell Museum, Mitla, Mexico. Collection:  Howard Leigh Registration:  MFR 12619 Provenance:  San Felipe Tejalapa, Etla, Oaxaca. Measurements:  64 cm. Color:  Dark grey clay with traces of red pigment. Chronology:  MA IIIB (Boos 1966b: 80); Pitao 350 - 500 AD  Click to view Chronology Reference:  Boos 1966a: vol. II 26, plate XXV, 1966b: 80, fig. 59; Paddock 1966: 168, fig. 174; Urcid 1999: 254, fig. 20. Comments:  Drawing based on Urcid (1999: 254, fig. 20). The heavily attired figure holds a bag of incense in the left hand. On the right side of the figure's belt there is a circular element that may represent a mirror. In the center of the headdress, above a series of reptile (alligator) eyes, there is a figure wearing a Xicani mask. Compare the style of this urn with MDO 32 and MDO 33, that also come from the Etla valley. Glyphs:   Dating:

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Key:  MNA 6-4851 Actual Location:  National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City, Mexico. Collection:   Registration:  6-4851 (INAH 10-61336) Provenance:  Offering in courtyard VII of tomb 103, Monte Albán, Oaxaca. Measurements:  Aprox. 20 cm. Color:  Grey clay with traces of red pigment. Chronology:  MA IIIB (Caso and Bernal 1952: 185); Xoo 600 - 800 AD  Click to view Chronology Reference:  Caso 1939: 181 -183, figs. 18 & 19; Caso and Bernal 1952: 185-186, fig. 315. Comments:  Caso and Bernal say: "In [the offering] there are five human figures with masks of bird peaks. Two of them also have quetzal headdresses, while the other three are wearing serpent headdresses. Perhaps, together, they represent the Quetzalcoatl" (Caso and Bernal 1952: 185-186). This figure wears a serpent headress and holds a what could be a mirror at his midrift. All the figures' headdresses are removable. See MNA 6-4850. Glyphs:  The mask of glyph V "alligator" in the headdress. Dating:

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Key:  MNA Patio t.104 Actual Location:  National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City, Mexico. Collection:   Registration:   Provenance:  Courtyard of tomb 104, Monte Albán, Oaxaca. Measurements:  26 cm. Color:   Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD  Click to view Chronology Reference:  Caso and Bernal 1952: 285, fig. 432. Comments:  Caso and Bernal (1952: 283) say: "...[the figure] bears a serpent eye in the headdress, as well as a few beads of jade, decorated as numerals, in the shape of number 11, which was probably 13; among them, a bead of authentic jade". Because of the bad quality of the photo presented, these details cannot be observed. Glyphs:  The glyph for alligator eye (V) in the headdress. Dating:

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Key:  MRB A.AM 69-2 Actual Location:  Royal Museums of Art and History of Brussels, Belgium. Collection:   Registration:  A.AM 69-2 Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  20.8 x 37.2 cm. Color:  Grey and brown clay. Chronology:  MA IIIB (Graulich 1987: 135); Peche 500 - 600 AD  Click to view Chronology Reference:  Graulich 1987: 135 and plate 106. Comments:  It is not exactly a vessel, but rather a plaque. However, its iconography is similar to that of vessels. Glyphs:  Three visible numerals. Probably one fell off. The head piece worn by the human figure corresponds to glyph V "alligator" (4V). Dating:

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Key:  MWF 33804 Actual Location:  Museum der Weltkulturen, Frankfurt, Germany Collection:  Gustav Belllón; Hasso Von Winning 1968 Registration:  N.S. 33804 Provenance:  N/p Measurements:   Color:  Beige clay with traces of red pigment. Chronology:  Pitao 350 - 500 AD  Click to view Chronology Reference:  Not published Comments:  Photograph in AMNH shows this object in the Bellón collection. This piece has a great deal of damage to the headdress. It is very similar to ROM 1948, and wears the same bucal mask corresponding to the glyph V (alligator). Glyphs:  The glyph for "corn field" in the pectoral. Dating:

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Key:  ROM 323 Actual Location:  Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada. Collection:  Constantino Rickards Registration:  HM 323 Provenance:  Tlacolula, Oaxaca. Measurements:  12.5 cm. Color:  Grey clay. Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD  Click to view Chronology Reference:  Sellen 1999: 3. Comments:  Glass with a bat's claw and engraved glyph. See EMB 35312. Glyphs:  Glyph V "alligator eye". Numeral 1 engraved on the claw's foot (1 V). Dating:  National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), test no. 090322: authentic.

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