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Key:  SLAM 133:1980 Actual Location:  Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. Collection:  Valetta Malinowska; Morton D. May Registration:  133:1980 / former loan number 1972.513 Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  44 cm. Color:  Grey clay with traces of red, yello and white pigments. Chronology:  MA IIIA (Parsons 1980: 142); Pitao 350 - 500 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Photo from Shaplin's files; Parsons 1980:142, fig. 215. Comments:  On both sides of glyph C, in the headdress, two quetzal birds, placed upside down, can be seen. Glyphs:  Glyph Ñ represented by the volutes around the eyes. Glyph C in the headdress. Dating:  Shaplin and Zimmerman 1978, TL no. 124 (authentic).

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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:  MNA 6-4850 Actual Location:  National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City, Mexico. Registration:  6-4850 (INAH 10-61335) Provenance:  Offering in courtyard VII of tomb 103, Monte Albán, Oaxaca. Measurements:  aprox. 20 cm. Color:  Grey clay with traces of red pigment. Chronology:  MA IIIB (Caso and Bernal 1952: 185); Xoo 600 - 800 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Caso 1939: 181 -183, figs. 18 & 19; Caso and Bernal 1952: 185-186, fig. 315. Comments:  Caso and Bernal say: "In [the offering] there are five human figures with masks of bird beaks. Two of them also have quetzal headdresses, while the other three are wearing serpent headdresses. Perhaps, together, they represent the Quetzalcoatl" (Caso and Bernal 1952: 185-186). This figures has an owl's mask in headdress and holds an incense bag in the left hand. All the figures' headdresses are removable. See MNA 6-4851.

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Key:  MNA 6-4851 Actual Location:  National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City, Mexico. Registration:  6-4851 (INAH 10-61336) Provenance:  Offering in courtyard VII of tomb 103, Monte Albán, Oaxaca. Measurements:  aprox. 20 cm. Color:  Grey clay with traces of red pigment. Chronology:  MA IIIB (Caso and Bernal 1952: 185); Xoo 600 - 800 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Caso 1939: 181 -183, figs. 18 & 19; Caso and Bernal 1952: 185-186, fig. 315. Comments:  Caso and Bernal say: "In [the offering] there are five human figures with masks of bird peaks. Two of them also have quetzal headdresses, while the other three are wearing serpent headdresses. Perhaps, together, they represent the Quetzalcoatl" (Caso and Bernal 1952: 185-186). This figure wears a serpent headress and holds a what could be a mirror at his midrift. All the figures' headdresses are removable. See MNA 6-4850. Glyphs:  The mask of glyph V "alligator" in the headdress.

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Key:  SMI 115151 Actual Location:  Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., United States. Collection:  Louis H. Ayme. Acquired by the Museum on 29 July 1885. Registration:  Cat. 115151, Acc. No. 16290 Provenance:  Zaachila, Oaxaca. Measurements:  40 x 34.5 cm. Color:  Light grey clay with a bright red coating. Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Boos 1966: 130, fig. 115 and p. 64, color plate; Whitecotton 1985: 87. Comments:  This piece is used as the lid of another container, maybe a brazier. There is an alligator's mask in the headdress, and above it, another mask, of a butterfly. The human figure is holding a bird in each hand, probably quetzal birds.

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Key:  MNA 6-7892 Actual Location:  National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City, Mexico (exhibited). Provenance:  Tomb located in the summit of "El Corral", Magdalena Jicotlán, La Mixteca, Oaxaca. Measurements:  36 x 32.2 cm. Color:  Painted with bright colors in green, yellow and red. Chronology:  MA IIIB (Bernal 1963: 33); Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Bernal 1963: 33-34 Comments:  In the upper part of the headdress, the head of a quetzal. The figure is holding an incense bag in the hands. Glyphs:  The narrow strip hanging from one side of the headdress has a face corresponding to glyph V. Three glyphs E decorating the loincloth's edge.

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Key:  JANSSEN 1 Actual Location:  Musées Royaux d’Árt et d’Histoire, Belgium Collection:  Dora and Paul Janssen Registration:  without registration Provenance:  s/p Color:  Grey Chronology:  Pitao 350 - 500 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Les Maîtres de l'Art précolumbien. La collection Dora et Paul Janssen, pp. 87, 88-89, y 93. Comments:  Person who wears an short bird mask and also has the large head of a bird in his headdress, possibly a Quetzal. On each side of the bird head wings can be seen. This piece was bought by the Janssens at auction, and the final destination of the colección still has to be determined.

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