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Key:  MNA 6-80
Actual Location:  National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City, Mexico.
Registration:  6-80
Provenance:  Tlacochahuaya, Oaxaca.
Measurements:  16 cm.
Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD
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Reference:  Caso and Bernal 1952: 313, fig. 463.
Comments:  This figure is holding an incense bag in the hands.

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Key:  MNA 6-713
Actual Location:  National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City, Mexico.
Registration:  6-713
Provenance:  Unknown
Measurements:  31 cm.
Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD
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Reference:  Caso and Bernal 1952: 243, fig. 388.
Comments:  A piece is missing, probably a bag of incense. The rope can be seen in their hands and this is a typical posture for holding the bag.
Glyphs:  Glyph E in the headdress. Glyph E superimposed on glyph C. In the upper part of glyph C, a jaguar's head.

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Key:  MNA 6-68
Actual Location:  National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City, Mexico.
Registration:  6-68
Provenance:  Cerro de la Campana (Hill of the Bell), Suchiquiltongo, Oaxaca.
Measurements:  43.2 x 53.5 x 37.7 cm.
Color:  Grey clay.
Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD
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Reference:  L. Gamio 1946: 2 (technical report AT/DMP/INAH). Caso and Bernal 1952: 62-63, fig. 98; Winter 1990: 129, fig. 55.
Comments:  Lorenzo Gamio found this piece in the antechamber of a tomb in the Hill of the Bell. It was placed in front of the entrance, with its back to it. Gamio said (1946: 2): "[The object] was mutilated. The right arm and the left leg are missing. It was deposited in the container used as incense burner. The destruction of this object was not caused by the action of time because, if the arm had broken, there would be fragments. But we looked for them unsuccessfully. Besides, the leg inside the container indicates it was an intentional move". The piece has been restored.
Glyphs:  Caso and Bernal designate the glyph and numeral one hanging from the neck as "one tiger". Urcid (1992: 187) designates the glyph as "iota" and speculates that it could be a variation of glyph D.

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Key:  MNA 6-6221
Actual Location:  National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City, Mexico (warehouse).
Collection:  Saville Excavation
Registration:  Caso and Bernal 6-725/ MNA 6-6221
Provenance:  Tomb 1, Mound 7, Xoxocotlán, Oaxaca.
Measurements:  51 cm.
Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD
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Reference:  Saville 1899: 355-356 & plate 22; Caso and Bernal 1952: 46, fig. 6.
Comments:  Central vessel of a group of five. The headdress was reconstructed based on a photo by Saville (1899: plate 22). The left hand is missing. This hand was probably holding a bag of incense as shown by the vessel embedded in the facade of tomb 104 in Monte Albán.

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Key:  SLAM 116:1980
Actual Location:  Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States.
Collection:  Valetta Malinowska; Morton D. May.
Registration:  116:1980 / former loan number 1968.576
Provenance:  Unknown
Measurements:  34.5 cm.
Color:  Grey clay with traces of red pigment.
Chronology:  MA IIIB (Parsons 1980: 148); Peche 500 - 600 AD
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Reference:  Photo from Shaplin's files; Parsons 1980: 148, fig. 228.
Comments:  The figure is holding a bag of incense in the hands and wears a cape decorated with dots.
Glyphs:  The glyph Ñ in the face is represented by the volutes around the eyes.
Dating:  Shaplin and Zimmerman, 1978, TL no. 24 (600 rads, authentic).

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Key:  MFR 7738
Actual Location:  Frissell Museum, Mitla, Mexico.
Collection:  Howard Leigh (date of purchase: 1960).
Registration:  MFR 7738/ 3260? / INAH 3254 (National Anthropology and History Institute)
Provenance:  Unknown
Measurements:  38.5 x 24 cm.
Color:  Dark grey clay with a lighter coating. The decoration in the headdress is covere
Chronology:  MA IIIB (Boos 1966:150); Peche 500 - 600 AD
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Reference:  Boos 1966: 150, fig. 136.
Comments:  Human figure carrying a bag of incense in the hands and dressed with a cape decorated with shallow protrusions. Lines on face indicate an old man.
Dating:  F10

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Key:  MFR 12619
Actual Location:  Frissell Museum, Mitla, Mexico.
Collection:  Howard Leigh
Registration:  MFR 12619
Provenance:  San Felipe Tejalapa, Etla, Oaxaca.
Measurements:  64 cm.
Color:  Dark grey clay with traces of red pigment.
Chronology:  MA IIIB (Boos 1966b: 80); Pitao 350 - 500 AD
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Reference:  Boos 1966a: vol. II 26, plate XXV, 1966b: 80, fig. 59; Paddock 1966: 168, fig. 174; Urcid 1999: 254, fig. 20.
Comments:  Drawing based on Urcid (1999: 254, fig. 20). The heavily attired figure holds a bag of incense in the left hand. On the right side of the figure's belt there is a circular element that may represent a mirror. In the center of the headdress, above a series of reptile (alligator) eyes, there is a figure wearing a Xicani mask. Compare the style of this urn with MDO 32 and MDO 33, that also come from the Etla valley.

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Key:  MFR 1347
Actual Location:  Frissell Museum, Mitla, Mexico.
Collection:  Howard Leigh
Registration:  MFR 1347
Provenance:  District of Ocotlán, Oaxaca.
Measurements:  24 cm.
Color:  Grey clay
Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD
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Reference:  Boos 1966a: vol. II, 70, plate LVIII.
Comments:  Masked person wearing a decorated cape and clasping an incense bag in both hands. What appear to be leaves cover the hands. In the headdress there are three jaguar heads, one in the middle and one on each side. The side heads are turned 15 degrees. The same combination of decorated cape, incense bag and jaguar heads can also be seen in MNA 6-221, MFR 12641, MAMP s/n, MFR 7741 and CB1.
Glyphs:  Glyph E in the headdress.

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Key:  MFR 7741
Actual Location:  Frissell Museum, Mitla, Mexico.
Registration:  MFR 7741
Provenance:  Unknown
Measurements:  56 x 36 cm.
Chronology:  MA IIIB (Boos 1966a: vol. II, 62); Xoo 600 - 800 AD
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Reference:  Boos 1966a: vol. II, 62, plate LII.
Comments:  Figure holding a bag of incense. One of the jaguar heads in the headdress has probably broken. For similar pieces, see SOTH 1976.147, MSMA 1993.23.3 and SMI 115003.
Glyphs:  The headdress and mask correspond to glyph Ñ.
Dating:  F37

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Key:  MFVV 59.878
Actual Location:  Museum für Volkerkunde, Vienna, Austria.
Registration:  59.878
Provenance:  Unknown
Measurements:  42.5 x 26 cm.
Chronology:  MA IIIB (Boos 1966b: 147); Xoo 600 - 800 AD
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Reference:  Boos 1966b: 147, fig. 133.
Comments:  The figure was probably holding a bag of incense in the hands, but it broke.

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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
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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.

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Key:  MDO 38
Actual Location:  Dolores Olmedo Museum, Mexico City, Mexico (exhibited).
Registration:  Record from the National Anthropology and History Institute (INAH), P.F. 100, LO 38
Provenance:  Unknown
Measurements:  25.5 x 25.5 cm.
Color:  Beige clay
Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD
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Comments:  The headdress of the piece is missing. The figure is holding a bag of incense.

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Key:  AM 61-16
Actual Location:  Atkins Museum (Nelson Gallery ), Kansas City, United States.
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.
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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.

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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
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Reference:  Boos 1966b: 255, fig. 233.
Comments:  Boos classifies this object as "accompanying piece". The figure holds a bag of incense in the hands.

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Key:  MA t/104
Actual Location:  Monte Albán, built in the facade of tomb 104.
Provenance:  Monte Albán, Oaxaca.
Measurements:  91 cm.
Color:  Grey clay
Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD
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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.

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