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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   Click to view Chronology 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:  MSMA 1 Actual Location:  Regional Museum of Oaxaca, City of Oaxaca, Mexico (exhibited). Provenance:  Tomb 214, access highway to Monte Albán, Oaxaca. Color:  Grey clay with traces of stucco. Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Urcid 2005: 41. Comments:  Found in an excavation in 1995. It represents a woman dressed in a "huipil", sitting on a box engraved with the glyph for hill. The woman is wearing a jaguar's head piece.

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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   Click to view Chronology 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   Click to view Chronology 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:  MDO 33 Actual Location:  Dolores Olmedo Museum, Mexico City, Mexico (exhibited). Collection:  Fernando Sologuren; Armilia Van Rijn (195?-1964); Dolores Olmedo Patiño (presently). Registration:  Record from the National Anthropology and History Institute (INAH), P.F. 100, LO 33 Provenance:  Etla, Oaxaca, according to an undated foto by Rickards. Measurements:  63 x 48.5 cm. Color:  Dark grey clay Chronology:  MA IIIA (Boos 1966b: 390); Pitao 350 - 500 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Photo from Rickards, circa 1911 (document by Jorge Rickards); Caso and Bernal 1952: 209, fig. 346; Boos 1966b: 390, fig. 360a and b; Anton and Dockstader 1969: 45. Comments:  This piece was probably found by Fernando Sologuren at the beginning of the last century. In 1928, Caso and Bernal (1952: 97) took pictures of the piece when it was at Mercedes Sologuren's house. At the beginning of the 1950s, the piece went to Machilda Armilia Van Rijn and then, in 1964, it was acquired by Dolores Olmedo Patiño (personal communication with Patricia Van Rijn, 1999). For a similar Etla style of this period compare it with MDO 32 and MFR 12619. Glyphs:  Glyph E "Xoo" reproduced several times in the headdress. The headdress mask corresponds to glyph U. Above the mask's nose, a jaguar's head can be seen and, above it, the glyph for corn.

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Key:  SMI 115034 Actual Location:  Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., United States. Collection:  Louis H. Ayme. Acquired by the Museum on 1 June 1885. Registration:  Cat. 115034; Acc. # 16107 Provenance:  Chicomazuchil, Oaxaca. Measurements:  35.5 x 41 cm. Color:  Beige Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Boos 1966b: 323. Comments:  There is a head at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM 373) similar to this piece's head and it is possible that the body is alike as well. It could represent an old jaguar, but the other option would be a dog. According to a card from the Smithsonian Institution, fragments under Cat. 115160 and 115043 belong to this piece.

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Key:  NMAI 163627 Actual Location:  National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., United States. Collection:  Louis Gustave Bellon; George Gustave Heye. Heye purchased this artefact at auction in Paris in 1928. Registration:  Col. Bellon no. 34; Old number from MAI 16/3627; New number from NMAI 163627.000 Provenance:  Cuilapan, Oaxaca Measurements:  42 x 45 cm. Color:  Light brown clay. Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  AMNH, Saville Archive, box 28, Bellon collection inventory; Arts of Pre-Columbian Mexico (auction, November 1928) fig. 22; Bernal, Exploraciones de Cuilapan, 1902-1954, p. 67; Boos 1966b: 297, fig. 276 ; Sleight 1988: fig. 24. Comments:  This piece often appears published without provenance, however the original collector, Gustave Bellon, reported that it was from Cuilapan. A jaguar's head on the left side of the headdress and a plaited cord, on the right side. For a similar piece, but without a glyph, refer to SOTH 1987.156. Glyphs:  Three numerals and glyph J in the headdress (3 J).

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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   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.

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Key:  MAM s/n 2 Actual Location:  Amparo Museum, Puebla, Mexico. Collection:  Josué Sáenz 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".

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Key:  CPA 1 Actual Location:  Unknown Collection:  Anonymous private collection Provenance:  Unknown Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Rediscovered Masterpieces of Mesoamerica: Mexico-Guatemala-Honduras, 1985. Comments:  An old man's head with a jaguar's headpiece. Because of the picture's angle, it was hard to determine which were the glyphs and its relevant coefficients. Glyphs:  Glyph 2X in the headdress? In the middle, two glyphs U on both sides of the face with bare jaws. At the bottom, two glyphs X on both sides.

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Key:  ROM 373 Actual Location:  Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada. Collection:  Constantino Rickards Registration:  HM 373 Provenance:  Santa Cruz Mixtepec, Ocotlán District, Oaxaca. Measurements:  18 cm. Color:  Grey clay with a beige coating. Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD   Click to view Chronology Comments:  This jaguar head is similar to another at the Smithsonian Institution, which is more complete (SMI 115034). Glyphs:  Glyph # 109 on the head's crown (broken). Dating:  TL by Lazos, Ortiz, Ruvalcaba and Sellen, 1999, test #090313: authentic.

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Key:  BM 1946/AM/19/5 Actual Location:  British Museum, London, England. 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.

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Key:  MFR s/n 3 Actual Location:  Unknown (before at Frissell Museum). Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  54 cm. Chronology:  MA IV (Boos 1966a: 63); Xoo 600 - 800 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Boos 1966a: 63, fig. 43; Paddock 1966: 148, fig. 150. Comments:  This figure is holding a type of staff in the left hand and a shield in the right arm. A bag of incense, with the head of an animal, probably a jaguar, hangs from the headdress. Bags of this type feature in headdresses of human figures carved on jambs in San Lázaro Zautla (cf. Urcid 1991: 10). Behind the bag is the head of a bird, perhaps a quetzal, placed on one side. In December 1959, while this piece was being taken to an exhibition, the transport car had an accident near Huitzo. It was stolen from the scene of the accident and never recovered.

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Key:  MFR 1244 Actual Location:  Frissell Museum, Mitla, Mexico. Collection:  Howard Leigh Registration:  1244 Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  39 cm. Color:  Beige Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Boos 1966b: 289, fig. 267; Urcid 1993: 159, fig. 12. Comments:  Great effigy of a jaguar. Glyphs:  Glyph U in the headdress, surrounded by leaves (glyph 109).

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Key:  NMAI 195806 Actual Location:  National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., United States. Collection:  Martin (1845); Eugène Boban (1870); E. Goupil (1888); George Gustave Heye (1922) Registration:  Old number from MAI 19/5806. New number from NMAI 195806.000 Provenance:  Close to Mitla, Oaxaca. Measurements:  72 x 35 cm. Color:  Light grey clay with traces of red pigment. Chronology:  MA IIIB (Boos 1966b: 304); Pitao 350 - 500 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Boban 1886: 19 (drawing); Nature, 1889: 120, fig. 2; Dockstader 1964: fig. 53; Boos 1966b: 304, fig. 283, Boos 1969: 133, fig. 1. Comments:  This piece was taken to France in 1845 by French Consul Martin. Eugène Boban purchased it in 1870 and tried to sell it, unsuccessfully, to the Smithsonian Institution in 1887. He ended up selling it to E. Goupil around 1888. Later, George Heye bought it in an auction in France and took it to his museum in New York. This human figure is holding a jaguar vase in one hand. There is no object in the other hand, but the gesture indicates he once held something. A trophy head hangs from his collar piece that is made up of human maxillae. The piece looks like MFVV 55163 and fragment MFR 1233. It may represent a young ball-game player with his head shaved.

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