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Key:  AM 61-16 Actual Location:  Atkins Museum (Nelson Gallery ), Kansas City, United States. Collection:   Registration:  61-16 Provenance:  Monte Albán, Oaxaca. Measurements:  63.5 cm. Color:  Light grey clay Chronology:  MA IIIA (Boos 1966b: 61); Pitao 350 - 500 d.C.  Click to view Chronology Reference:  Boos 1966b: 61, plate 41; Stendahl 1968: 189, fig. 236. Comments:  Person holds a staff in the right hand and a bag of incense in the left hand. Glyphs:  The owl's mask in the headdress. Correspondence with glyph F. Dating:

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Key:  BM 1908/7 Actual Location:  British Museum, London, England. Collection:  Reginald Tower Registration:  1908/7-18/11 Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  10.5 cm. Color:  Grey clay. Almost completely covered with red paint. Chronology:  MA IIIA (Boos 1966b: 255); Peche 500 - 600 AD  Click to view Chronology Reference:  Boos 1966b: 255, fig. 233. Comments:  Boos classifies this object as "accompanying piece". The figure holds a bag of incense in the hands. Glyphs:   Dating:

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Key:  BM 1946/AM/19/5 Actual Location:  British Museum, London, England. Collection:   Registration:  1946/AM/19/5 Provenance:  Tyllo, Oaxaca. Measurements:  32 cm. Color:  Cream with light grey coating. Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD  Click to view Chronology Reference:  Boos 1966b: 406, fig. 374. Comments:  The figure is holding a non-identified object in the hands. However, it could be a bag of incense. It wears a mouth jaguar mask and has rosettes in the headdress. There is also a plaited cord in the headdress, on the left side. Glyphs:   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 1 Actual Location:  Bustamante Vasconcelos Foundation, Oaxaca City, Oaxaca, Mexico. Collection:  Mr. Manuel J. Bustamante Vasconcelos Registration:   Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  42 x 30 cm. Color:  Traces of red pigment on face. Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD  Click to view Chronology Reference:   Comments:  From one side of the headdress, a jaguar head sticks out, next to a plaited cord. The human figure is wearing a cape decorated with small dots and is holding a bag of incense. Glyphs:   Dating:

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Key:  CPA 11 Actual Location:  Unknown Collection:  Private collecion in Mexico. Registration:   Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:   Color:   Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD  Click to view Chronology Reference:  Boos 1966: 410, fig. 379 (photo from the Wenner-Gren Foundation). Comments:  Effigy of an incense bag with slip knot. Glyphs:   Dating:

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Key:  KERR 1476 Actual Location:  Unknown Collection:  From a collection of photographs of Justin Kerr in the internet page of FAMSI. Registration:  Photograph number 1476 Provenance:  S/p Measurements:  15 cm. Color:  Beige clay Chronology:  Pitao 350 - 500 AD  Click to view Chronology Reference:  Http://FAMSI.Saiph.com:9501/dataSpark/kerrFolio Comments:  Person holding a bag of incense and wearing a decorated cape. Glyphs:   Dating:

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Key:  MA t/104 Actual Location:  Monte Albán, built in the facade of tomb 104. Collection:   Registration:   Provenance:  Monte Albán, Oaxaca. Measurements:  91 cm. Color:  Grey clay Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD  Click to view Chronology Reference:  Caso 1938: 73 and 76, fig. 92; Caso and Bernal 1952: 51, fig. 72. Comments:  The figure holds a bag of incense in one hand and the other hand is stretched out. This hand was mutilated by a tourist a few years back. In 1938, Caso identified this piece as Pitao Cozobi or God of Corn, but later, together with Bernal, they decide to classify it, in their work of 1952, as the "God with Cocijo Head in Headdress". The headdress mask belongs to the Xicani and is flanked by two jaguar heads. Glyphs:   Dating:

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Key:  MACP B-0342 Actual Location:  Museum of Archaeology Carlos Pellicer, Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico Collection:  Fernando Sologuren Registration:  B-0342 Provenance:  Zautla, Etla (Peñafiel 1893: 13); Nazareno (Caso y Bernal 1952: 109) Oaxaca. Measurements:   Color:  Grey with vestiges of red pigment. Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD  Click to view Chronology Reference:   Comments:  Effigy of an incense bag tied with slip knot decorated with bows. A piece that looks exactly like this one is held at the National Anthropology Museum in Mexico City (cf. MNA 6-1600), but it is slightly more complete. Therefore there must have been at least two objects in the same series. The origen of the object is in doubt given that there are two versions of its provenance. Compare with MFR 2540, MFR 8898 and MH 24.13.3663. Glyphs:  The glyph ñ. Dating:

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Key:  MAM s/n 2 Actual Location:  Amparo Museum, Puebla, Mexico. Collection:  Josué Sáenz Registration:   Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  65 cm. Color:  Grey clay with blank residues and traces of roots. Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD  Click to view Chronology Reference:  Easby et al. 1970: fig. 160. Comments:  A jaguar coming out of headdress. The figure carries a bag of incense in the hands. Glyphs:  The headdress mask corresponds to glyph U, the deity "Cosaana". Dating:

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