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Key:  MNA 6-827 Actual Location:  National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City, Mexico (exhibited). Collection:  Fernando Sologuren #419 Registration:  6-827 Provenance:  Atatluta, Etla, Oaxaca. Measurements:  25 cm. Color:  Grey clay. Chronology:  MA IIIA (Caso and Bernal 1952: 340); Pitao 350 - 500 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Seler 1960 [1904]: vol. II, 352, fig. 84; Caso 1949: 79, fig. I; Caso and Bernal 1952: 341-343, fig. 507; Boos 1964: 77-97. Comments:  Caso and Bernal (1952: 342) maintain that the vessel represents the Butterfly God and comes from the Cuicatec culture. For an almost identical piece in Sweden, refer to MEG 23.6.303. Another piece in Germany (EMB 31107) and a fragmented piece at the Frissell Museum in Mitla (MFR 7410).

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Key:  MEG 23.6.303 Actual Location:  Ethnographic Museum of Göteburg, Sweden. Collection:  Martínez Gracida; Edward Seler Registration:  23.6.303 (before ca. 29011, Museum für Volkerkunde, Berlin; Martínez Gracida #263) Provenance:  Atlatlauhca, Cuicatlán, Oaxaca (Martínez Gracida 1910: lám. 54). Measurements:  26 cm. Color:  Beige clay Chronology:  MA IIIA (Caso and Bernal 1952: 340); Pitao 350 - 500 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Boos 1964: 77-97, plate III. Comments:  Human figure with butterfly head piece. According to Martínez Gracida (1910: plate 154) this piece was found by Francisco Rojas and Mariano Bautista on the 15th of August, 1893, in a tomb of the pyramid that is known as the "Calvario", some 350 "varas" to the North of the settlement of "Atatlauca" (sic.). There are slight differences between this vessel and the one under MNA 6-827. For example, the buttons on the snout are not represented in the piece of the National Anthropology Museum. Also, a line, which starts running from the tongue (inside the mouth), is missing on this piece. For other examples of this type, see one in Germany (EMB 31107) and one at the Frissell Museum (MFR 7410) (fragmented piece).

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Key:  MFR 1816 Actual Location:  Frissell Museum, Mitla, Mexico. Collection:  Ervin Frissell Registration:  MFR 1816 / INAH 2605 Provenance:  Miahuatlán, Oaxaca. Measurements:  29 x 23.5 cm. Color:  Polychromed: red, white and yellow. Chronology:  MA IV (Paddock, MFR card); Xoo 600 - 800 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Boos 1964a: 87, plate VI. Comments:  Butterfly headdress. A late version of a common theme, especially during the Pitao period.

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Key:  SMI 114904 Actual Location:  Smithsonian Institution, Washington, United States. Collection:  Louis H. Ayme. Registration:  SMI 114904, Acc.#16107 Provenance:  Miahuatlán, Oaxaca. Measurements:  17.5 x 10 cm. Color:  Grey clay with a bright red-pigment coating. Chronology:  MA IIIA (Boos 1966b: 46); Pitao 350 - 500 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Boos 1964: 89, plateIX; Boos 1966b: 46, fig. 22. Comments:  Butterfly head in the headdress.

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Key:  BM 1849/6-29/28 Actual Location:  British Museum, London, England. Collection:  John Wetherall Registration:  1849/6-29/28 Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  18 cm. Color:  Light orange-yellow clay. Chronology:  Pitao 350 - 500 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Boos 1964a: 86-87, plate VII. Comments:  A butterfly head in the headdress.

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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 30.0/8 Actual Location:  American Museum of Natural History, New York, United States. Collection:  Marshall H. Saville Registration:  30.0/8 Provenance:  Cuilapan, Oaxaca Measurements:  22 x 26 cm. Color:  Light grey clay Chronology:  Pitao 350 - 500 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Boos 1964a: 77, plate II. Comments:  Probably a headdress fragment from a large effigy vessel. Corresponds to the butterfly.

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Key:  PAM 2 Actual Location:  Princeton Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, United States (exhibition) Provenance:  Unknown Color:  Beige clay Chronology:  Pitao 350 - 500 AD   Click to view Chronology Comments:  The headdress mask presents the features of a butterfly.

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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:  MFR 7410 Actual Location:  Frissell Museum, Mitla, Mexico. Registration:  MFR 7410 / INAH 2742 Provenance:  Zaachila, Oaxaca. Measurements:  21.5 x 23.5 x 20.5 cm. Color:  Grey clay Chronology:  Pitao 350 - 500 AD   Click to view Chronology Comments:  Human figure with butterfly head piece. This piece is similar to MNA 6-827, MEG 23.6.303 and EMB 31107.

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Key:  DAM 263.1997 Actual Location:  Denver Art Museum, Denver , Colorado, United States. Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  aprox. 40 cm. Color:  Orange clay. Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Comments:  A butterfly's mask in the headdress.

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Key:  SOTH 1990.207 Actual Location:  Unknown Collection:  Sotheby Parke Bennet Auction, 2 May 1990. Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  31.7 cm. Chronology:  Pitao 350 - 500 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Auction's catalog, Sotheby's 1990: fig. 207. Comments:  A butterfly mask in the headdress. On both sides of the central mouth of this mask, two Tlaloc heads, turned. The piece is flanked by two bird wings.

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Key:  EMB 31107 Actual Location:  Ethnographic Museum (Ethnologisches Museum), Berlin, Germany. Collection:  Edward Seler 1907 Registration:  IV Ca. 31107 Provenance:  Sierra Juárez, Oaxaca. Measurements:  27 x 19 cm. Color:  Orange clay. Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Schuler-Schömig 1970: 135, plate 205. Comments:  Human figure with butterfly head piece. There are three other pieces with great similarities to this one; see MNA 6-827, MEG 23.6.303 and MFR 7410. Glyphs:  Two glyphs J decorating the dress. Dating:  TL by Goedicke et al. 1992, test no. 205: authentic (TL's date: 271-614 AD).

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