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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 30.3/2301A Actual Location:  American Museum of Natural History, New York, United States Collection:  Ernest Erickson Registration:  30.3/2301A and 30.3/2301B Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  38 x 29 cm. Color:  Grey clay with traces of white stucco. Chronology:  MA IIIB-IV (Eubanks 1999: 123); Peche 500 - 600 AD  Click to view Chronology Reference:  Boos 1968: 195, fig. 175; Eubanks 1999: 123-125, fig. 98; Bigelow Taylor 1988: 54, fig. 57 Comments:  Compare with the piece at the Amparo Museum (MAM 631) and the piece of the Paulson Collection (MES 23.8.240). According to a catalogue published by the AMNH there is another fragment of this urn consisting of two hands clasping a small pot (30.3/2301B). On the pot is the milpa glyph (see Bigelow Taylor 1988: 54, fig. 57). Glyphs:  Probably had a glyph C attached to its forehead. Dating:  TL by David Zimmerman, 1974, authentic. Information reported by Eubanks (1999: 124).

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Key:  AMNH 30/11173 Actual Location:  American Museum of Natural History, New York, United States Collection:   Registration:  30.2/6099 Provenance:  Zimatlán, Oaxaca Measurements:  30 x 18.8 cm. Color:  Beige Chronology:  Late Xoo 600 - 800 AD  Click to view Chronology Reference:  Boos, 1966, p. 190, fig. 170; Eubanks, 1999, p. 136-137, fig. 109. Comments:   Glyphs:  A glyph C in the headdress. Dating:

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Key:  AMNH 30/6334 Actual Location:  American Museum of Natural History, New York, United States. Collection:  Marshall H. Saville Registration:  30/6334 Provenance:  Tomb 3, Mound 9, Xoxocotlán, Oaxaca. Measurements:  47.5 x 55 cm. Color:  Beige ceramic paste with traces of red. Chronology:  MA IIIB (Eubanks 1999: 134); Xoo 600 - 800 AD  Click to view Chronology Reference:  Saville 1899, 358-359, 1904: 54-56, photos on pages 54 (in situ) and 56 (with box) ;Eubanks 1999: 134-135, fig. 108. There is an unpublished drawing by Urcid of the pieces in situ on the facade. Comments:  This piece is part of a series of five pieces excavated by Marshall Saville. He found them embedded over a lintel engraved with glyphs, at the entrance of a tomb. On both sides of the central vessel, there were two stucco skulls embedded in the facade (see Urcid's reconstruction). Each urn was protected with a plate when the tomb was buried. They are lids and Saville (1899: 359) maintains that he found the matching boxes, broken and thrown into the fill that was used to cover the tomb. The pieces were broken when they were dettached from the facade. Glyphs:  A glyph C in the headdress. Dating:

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Key:  BARAKAT 2 Actual Location:  Barakat Gallery, Beverly Hills, California, United States Collection:   Registration:   Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:   Color:  Covered in red pigment. Chronology:  Pitao 350 - 500 AD  Click to view Chronology Reference:  Http://www.barakatgallery.com/store Comments:  Seated figure wearing a Cocijo mask. The pectoral plate is a curious version of the "milpa" glyph, given that the three dots in the center are placed vertically. Most glyphs of this type have the dots placed horizontally. Glyphs:  The glyph for "cornfield" constitutes the pectoral plate. In the headdress there is a large glyph C. Dating:

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Key:  BELMAR 1 Actual Location:  Unknown, probably National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico. Collection:  Francisco Belmar (#37?) Registration:   Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:   Color:   Chronology:  MA IIIB (Boos 1966b: 79); Xoo 600 - 800 AD.  Click to view Chronology Reference:  Boos 1966: 79, fig. 58. Comments:   Glyphs:  The glyph M (Cocijo) in the headdress is displayed on both sides of the same mask with a front view. Possibly two bars of five attached to the Cocijo's nose: 10?M. A glyph C in the headdress. Dating:

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Key:  BIRM 1965.33 Actual Location:  Birmingham Museum, Birmingham, England. Collection:   Registration:  1965:33:00 Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  53.3 x 30 x 28 cm. Color:   Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD  Click to view Chronology Reference:  Collection's catalog, Birmingham Museum of Art, 1984: 39, fig 26. Comments:  This piece accompanies two more: one that is at the Rufino Tamayo Museum in Oaxaca, Mexico (MRT 3) and another, which is in Stanford (SUAM 1997.167). There were probably four or five in total. Glyphs:  Glyph C in the headdress. 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:  CB 3 Actual Location:  Bustamante Vasconcelos Foundation, Oaxaca City, Oaxaca, Mexico. Collection:  Mr. Manuel J. Bustamante Vasconcelos Registration:   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 Reference:   Comments:   Glyphs:  A glyph C in the headdress. Dating:

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Key:  CB 4 Actual Location:  Bustamante Vasconcelos Foundation, Oaxaca City, Oaxaca, Mexico. Collection:  Mr. Manuel J. Bustamante Vasconcelos Registration:   Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  15 x 8.5 cm. Color:  Grey clay Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD  Click to view Chronology Reference:   Comments:   Glyphs:  A glyph C in the headdress with a glyph E superimposed. Dating:

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