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Key:  EMB 24097 Actual Location:  Ethnographic Museum (Ethnologisches Museum), Berlin, Germany. Collection:  Heinrichs Hinrichs 1902 Registration:  IV Ca. 24097 Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  24.5 x 10.2 cm. Color:  Grey clay Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD  Click to view Chronology Reference:  Schuler-Schömig 1970: 118, plate 176. Comments:  This feminine human figure has a winged bird in the headdress. Glyphs:   Dating:  TL by Goedicke et al. 1992, test No. 118: authentic (TL's date: A.C. 966-1061).

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Key:  EMB 37949 Actual Location:  Ethonological Museum (Ethnologisches Museum), Berlin, Germany. Collection:  Edward Seler 1911 Registration:  IV Ca. 37949 Provenance:  Oaxaca Measurements:  13.8 x 7.5 dia. cm. Color:  Grey clay. Chronology:  MA IIIB (Schuler-Schömig 1970: 120); Xoo 600 - 800 AD?  Click to view Chronology Reference:  Schuler-Schömig 1970: 120, plate 181; Deimel & Ruhnau 2000: 17. Comments:  The side elements are bird wings. Glyphs:  This human figure's face corresponds to glyph X. Dating:  TL by Goedicke et al. 1992, test no.181: authentic (TL's date: 726-971 AD).

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Key:  JANSSEN 1 Actual Location:  Musées Royaux d’Árt et d’Histoire, Belgium Collection:  Dora and Paul Janssen Registration:  Without registration Provenance:  S/p Measurements:   Color:  Grey Chronology:  Pitao 350 - 500 AD  Click to view Chronology Reference:  Les Maîtres de l'Art précolumbien. La collection Dora et Paul Janssen, pp. 87, 88-89, y 93. Comments:  Person who wears an short bird mask and also has the large head of a bird in his headdress, possibly a Quetzal. On each side of the bird head wings can be seen. This piece was bought by the Janssens at auction, and the final destination of the colección still has to be determined. Glyphs:   Dating:

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Key:  MFR 1845 Actual Location:  Frissell Museum, Mitla, Mexico. Collection:   Registration:   Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:   Color:   Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD  Click to view Chronology Reference:   Comments:  Human figure with a bird in the headdress, possibly a turkey buzzard. For similar pieces, compare with MNA 6-799, MNA 6-798 and MFVV 6087. This piece was probably used as a brazier's lid. Glyphs:   Dating:  F9

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Key:  MFR s/n 3 Actual Location:  Unknown (before at Frissell Museum). Collection:   Registration:   Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  54 cm. Color:   Chronology:  MA IV (Boos 1966a: 63); Xoo 600 - 800 AD  Click to view Chronology 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. Glyphs:   Dating:

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Key:  MFVV 6087 Actual Location:  Museum für Volkerkunde, Vienna, Austria. Collection:  Edward Seler? Registration:  6087 Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  36 x 33 x 23 cm. Color:  Beige clay Chronology:  MA IIIB-IV (Boos 1966b: 383); Peche 500 - 600 AD  Click to view Chronology Reference:  Boos 1966b: 383, fig. 353; Winter 1994a: 155. Comments:  Human figure with a bird in the headdress, possibly a turkey buzzard. He is holding a bag of incense in the left hand. For similar pieces, compare with MFR 1845, MNA 6-798 and MNA 6-799. Glyphs:   Dating:

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Key:  MNA 6-4842 Actual Location:  National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City, Mexico. Collection:  Guillermo Dupaix Registration:  6-42 Provenance:  Mitla, Oaxaca. Measurements:  47 cm. Color:  Grey clay with traces of white and red paint. Face painted in red. Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD  Click to view Chronology Reference:  Gumesindo & Sánchez 1882: 465, no. 1 (catalog description); Seler 1904: 302, plate XXXVI; Galindo & Villa 1905: plate 26; Mexican masks, 1945, p. 50, fig. 43; Mexican Art 1953: fig. 20; Covarrubias 1957: plate XXXV; Romero 1958: plate XL. The richness Comments:  According to the information provided by Edward Seler, this piece was found by explorer Dupaix at the beginning of the 19th century, in Mitla. Jaguar headdress and in the jaguar's forehead, a bird's head. Another bird head hangs from a pendant. The piece has no feet and was probably used as the lid of another container. Glyphs:  Two glyphs for heart on both sides of the headdress. Dating:

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Key:  MNA 6-4850 Actual Location:  National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City, Mexico. Collection:   Registration:  6-4850 (INAH 10-61335) 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 beaks. 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 figures has an owl's mask in headdress and holds an incense bag in the left hand. All the figures' headdresses are removable. See MNA 6-4851. 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 6-5801 Actual Location:  National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City, Mexico. Collection:   Registration:  MNA cat. 6-5801/ Inv. 10-61343. Provenance:  Tomb 77, no. 26, Monte Albán, Oaxaca. Measurements:  81.5 x 66 cm. Color:  Painted in blue, yellow, white and red. Chronology:  MA II (Caso and Bernal 1952: 202); Niza 100 BC - 200 AD  Click to view Chronology Reference:  Caso 1935: 26-27; Keleman 1943: vol. II, plate 121c; Toscano 1944: 429; Caso & Bernal 1952: 202-203, figs. 341, 341 bis; Covarrubias 1957: plate XXXIV; Paddock 1966: 124, fig. 80; Gendrop 1970: 137, fig. 158b; Pre-Columbian Art 1990: 151, fig. 52. Comments:  This piece was found by Alfonso Caso in the period PMA IV (1934-1935). According to Caso and Bernal, the piece is an early expression of the "God with Head Piece of a Wide-Beaked Bird" (1952: 204). Flannery and Marcus believe that the urn represents a warrior because, according to them, the head piece worn by the figure is a bird of prey (1996: 199). See also MNA t/77, no. 3. Glyphs:   Dating:

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