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Key:  GLS 1 Actual Location:  Unknown Collection:  Guy Loudmer Auction, France. Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  14 cm. Color:  Grey clay Chronology:  Pitao 350 - 500 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Guy Loudmer auction's catalog, Precolombian Art, fig. 32, Monday, December 9, 1991. Comments:  Central vessel of a series of three (See GLS 2 for accompanying pieces). Glyphs:  Under the mask of Cocijo, two numerals, which could be 2 M? but also 2 knot because of the bow on the chest. Glyph C in the headdress.

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Key:  MNA 6-4854 Actual Location:  National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City, Mexico. Registration:  6-54 Provenance:  Courtyard of tomb 137a, no. 1, Monte Albán, Oaxaca. Measurements:  57.6 x 62 cm. Color:  Brown clay with black, red and yellow paint. Chronology:  Transition period (Caso and Bernal 1952: 196); Tani 200 - 350 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Caso & Bernal 1952: 192, fig. 324; Covarrubias 1957: plate XXXIV; Paddock 1966: 124, fig. 81; Gendrop 1970: plate XVIa. Comments:  A piece is missing on the figure's forehead, which was probably the handle of the knot used to tie up the turban. This artefact was found next to a fragment of a small jar, Tlaloc style, from the "Altiplano" or High Plateau, illustrated in Caso and Bernal 1952: 37, fig. 40. Glyphs:  This piece corresponds to glyph X.

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Key:  MFR 2540 Actual Location:  Frissell Museum, Mitla, Mexico. Collection:  Ervin Frissell Registration:  MFR 2540 Provenance:  San Lorenzo Cacaotepec, Oaxaca. Measurements:  18.2 x 12.7 x 10.5 cm. Color:  Grey clay Chronology:  MA IIIB (Paddock, in the Museum's catalog card); Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Comments:  Effigy of a bag of incense with slip knot. Compare with MFR 8898, MH 24.13.366, MNA 6-1600 and MACP B-0342.

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Key:  MNA 6-1600 Actual Location:  National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City, Mexico. Collection:  Fernando Sologuren Registration:  6-1600 Provenance:  Zautla, Etla (Peñafiel 1893: 13); Nazareno (Caso and Bernal 1952: 109) Oaxaca. Measurements:  21 cm. Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Peñafiel 1893: 13; Caso and Bernal 1952: 109, fig 179. 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 Carlos Pellicer Museum in Tabasco (cf. MACP B-0342), but iut 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.

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Key:  MH 24.13.3669 Actual Location:  Musée de l'Homme (Museum of Man), Paris, France. Collection:  Auguste Genin Registration:  24.13.3669 Provenance:  Chitla, District of Tlacolula, Oaxaca. Measurements:  14 X 15.4 dia. cm. Color:  Dark grey clay with traces of red pigment. Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Boos 1966: 411, fig. 380. Comments:  Effigy of an incense bag with slip knot. Compare with MNA 6-1600, MACP B-0342, MFR 2540 and MFR 8898

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Key:  CPA 11 Actual Location:  Unknown Collection:  Private collecion in Mexico. Provenance:  Unknown 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.

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Key:  Nelson 1 Actual Location:  Unknown Collection:  Nelson Provenance:  Unknown Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Drawing based on a photograph provided by Javier Urcid (2003). Comments:  Effigy of a bat carrying a staff. There is some kind of knot in the genitals. Glyphs:  Two glyphs for blood in the corners of the mouth.

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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. Color:  Grey with vestiges of red pigment. Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology 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.

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