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Results 1 - 3 of 3 for "rain"
Key:  MFR 2770
Actual Location:  Frissell Museum, Mitla, Mexico.
Collection:  Ervin Frissell (date of purchase: 6 June 1969).
Registration:  INAH 2770 / MFR 8266
Provenance:  Unknown
Measurements:  25.8 x 19.3 cm.
Color:  Grey with traces of red paint.
Chronology:  MA IIIA (Kowalewski and Truell, 1970: 3); Pitao 350 - 500 AD  Click to view Chronology
Reference:  Kowalewski and Truell, 1970, p. 3, figs. 3 & 4 and also cover.
Comments:  This effigy has attributes of the Central Mexican Rain God known as Tlaloc. The defining characteristic are the large rings around the eyes. The pectoral seems to be a bag of incense, similar to the ones seen on Tlaloc vessels from Teotihuacan.
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Key:  ROM 1946
Actual Location:  Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada.
Collection:  Constantino Rickards
Registration:  HM 1946
Provenance:  Monte Albán, Oaxaca.
Measurements:  34 cm.
Color:  Grey clay.
Chronology:  Niza 100 BC - 200 AD  Click to view Chronology
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Comments:  This piece is fragmented.
Glyphs:  Glyph C in the headdress (broken). The hairpin glyph decorates the cape (rain?).
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Key:  SMI 215065
Actual Location:  Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., United States.
Collection:  E.O. Matthews. Acquired by the Museum on 19 March 1902.
Registration:  215065
Provenance:  Zaachila, Oaxaca (provenance based on a similarity with piece MNA 6-836).
Measurements:  42 x 26 cm.
Color:  Grey clay with a clay coating of another color. Traces of red paint.
Chronology:  MA IIIB (Boos 1964: 38); Peche 500 - 600 AD  Click to view Chronology
Reference:  Boos 1964: 38, plate XXXVI.
Comments:  Boos thinks that the object in the right hand symbolizes rain and the drawing on the pedestal, water (Boos 1964: 38). See MNA 6-836 for a piece identical to this one.
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