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Key:  AMNH 30.0/3 Actual Location:  American Museum of Natural History, New York, United States. Collection:  Mrs. Robert W. De Forest. Donated in April 1904. Registration:  30.0/3 Provenance:  Found in a mound in the Valley of Oaxaca. Measurements:  37.5 x 25 cm. Color:   Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD  Click to view Chronology Reference:  Saville 1904: 51, photo on p. 50; Eubanks 1999: 125-126, fig. 100. Comments:  Saville reported that it was found with 5 other pieces, all of them different. It is possible that the corn representation in the center of the headdress was added on a later date, as this glyph is usually placed on both sides of the headdress. Glyphs:   Dating:

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Key:  AMNH 164/322763 Actual Location:  American Museum of Natural History, New York, United States. Collection:  Marshall H. Saville Registration:  164/322763 Provenance:  Cuilapan, Oaxaca. Measurements:  68.5 cm. Color:  Light grey clay Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD  Click to view Chronology Reference:  Saville 1904: 58; Boos 1968a: vol. III, 27, plate X. Comments:  Discovered by Saville in 1902. He found it in front of a tomb in Cuilapan (Saville 1904: 59). The hands have been restored for the object's exhibition. Glyphs:  Glyph C in the headdress. The pectoral shows the glyph for "open corn grain", combined with glyph E. Dating:

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Key:  AMNH 30.2/6099 Actual Location:  American Museum of Natural History, New York, United States Collection:  Heinrich Hinrichs Registration:  30.2/6099 Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  29.4 x 20 cm. Color:  Grey clay with traces of blue (feathers in headdress) & red (nose, corn ears, maxtlatl) yellow (pectoral). Chronology:  Late Xoo 600 - 800 AD  Click to view Chronology Reference:  Color drawing by Seler (1888) with the indication that it comes from the Heinrich Hinrichs Collection; Eubanks 1999: 125-126, fig. 99. Comments:  The right hand has been restored. Seler's drawing shows that the left hand is missing and the headdress does not have any broken parts, so it is possible that there may be two pieces. The color drawing presented here is based on Seler's watercolor. Glyphs:   Dating:

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Key:  BM 1946/AM 19/6 Actual Location:  British Museum, London, England. Collection:  Vice-Earl of Cowdray Registration:  No. 1946/AM 19/6 Provenance:  Cuicatlán, Oaxaca Measurements:  24 cm. Color:  Grey clay with shades of yellow. Chronology:    Click to view Chronology Reference:  Boos 1968: 3. Comments:  This piece is almost like one that is at the Ethnographic Museum in Berlin, Germany (EMB 28354). The ear of corn is a representation of the virile member pierced by a cord in an act of ritual bleeding (cf. Sellen 2002: 14). Also see MFVW 274 for another human figure holding a blood letting cord in his hand. Glyphs:  Glyph C in the headdress. Dating:

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Key:  BMC 503-11 Actual Location:  Unknown Collection:  Barbier-Mueller Registration:  Inv. 503-11 Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  51.8 cm. Color:   Chronology:  Pitao 350 - 500 AD  Click to view Chronology Reference:  1985 Catalog of the Edward Merrin Gallery: fig. 45; Pre-Columbian Art in the Barbier-Mueller Collection, 1994: plate 58, pages 255 and 356. Comments:  A bird's wing in the headdress. A bag of incense above the ear pieces. Some iconographic details coincide with piece MNA 6-834, such as the frame of the corn field glyph. Glyphs:   Dating:

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

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Key:  CBE 145 Actual Location:  Present location unknown Collection:  Louis Gustave Bellon Registration:  No. 145 Provenance:  San Pablo Huitzo, Oaxaca Measurements:   Color:   Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD  Click to view Chronology Reference:  Photograph in the archive of Marshall H. Saville, American Museum of Natural History, box 27. Comments:  Drawing based on a black and white photograph. Effigy of a woman with a large glyph J in her headdress. The figure is missing the right hand and large part of its base. Glyphs:  The glyph for corn (J) in the headdress and inserted into the collar the number three (3J). However, under the the glyph J there is number bar for 5, so the coefficient may sum 8. Dating:

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Key:  CMA 44.78 Actual Location:  Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, United States. Collection:  Donation from the Eastman Family. Registration:  44.78 Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  37 x 26.5 cm. Color:  Light brown clay. Chronology:  MA IIIA (Boos 1966b: 74); Pitao 350 - 500 AD  Click to view Chronology Reference:  Boos 1966b: 74, fig. 53. Comments:  The pectoral and part of the headdress are missing from this piece. For other examples, see MNA 6-635, EMB 24882, MFVV 55.158, MDO 32 and MFR s/n 1. For an analysis of this type, see Sellen 2002: 9. Glyphs:  Glyph C in headdress flanked by two ears of corn. Cocijo mask in the headdress (glyph M). Dating:

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Key:  CPA 7 Actual Location:  Private collection in California. Collection:   Registration:   Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:   Color:   Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD  Click to view Chronology Reference:  Drawing based on a photo from Javier Urcid. Comments:  The human figure is holding an ear of corn in the right hand and a rope in the left hand. It is possible that this cord was used for the rite of bleeding. The figure is wearing a mask with attributes to Tlaloc and feathers hang from the ear pieces. The figure carries a big turtle shell on its back. Glyphs:   Dating:

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Key:  EMB 24094 Actual Location:  Ethnographic Museum (Ethnologisches Museum), Berlin, Germany. Collection:  Heinrich Hinrichs 1902 Registration:  IV Ca. 24094 Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  34.5 x 11.6 cm. Color:  Dark grey clay. Chronology:  Pitao 350 - 500 AD  Click to view Chronology Reference:  Schuler-Schömig 1970: 35, plate 13. Comments:  Human figure with Cocijo mask and attire. Glyphs:  Glyph C in the headdress; the glyph for corn field in the pectoral; and the glyph for cloud decorating the loincloth. Dating:  TL by Goedicke et al. 1992, test No. 13, authentic (TL's date: A.C. 133-523).

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