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Key:   Actual Location:   Collection:   Registration:   Provenance:   Measurements:   Color:   Chronology:    Click to view Chronology Reference:   Comments:   Glyphs:   Dating:   Key:  AEG 2.56 Actual Location:  Unknown Collection:  Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York Registration:   Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  21.5 cm. Color:  Grey; traces of green and burnished Chronology:  Pe 300 - 100 BC.  Click to view Chronology Reference:  Boos 1966: 136, fig. 123 Comments:  According to Boos this piece represents a goddess, but he provides no arguments for this assertion. Glyphs:  The glyph for blood as earrings. Dating:   Click to view high resolution in a new window select this image for review Key:  AM 61-16 Actual Location:  Atkins Museum (Nelson Gallery ), Kansas City, United States. Collection:   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.  Click to view Chronology 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. Dating:   Click to view high resolution in a new window select this image for review

Key:  AMNH 30.0/3 Actual Location:  American Museum of Natural History, New York, United States. Collection:  Mrs. Robert W. De Forest. Donated in April 1904. Registration:  30.0/3 Provenance:  Found in a mound in the Valley of Oaxaca. Measurements:  37.5 x 25 cm. Color:   Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD  Click to view Chronology Reference:  Saville 1904: 51, photo on p. 50; Eubanks 1999: 125-126, fig. 100. Comments:  Saville reported that it was found with 5 other pieces, all of them different. It is possible that the corn representation in the center of the headdress was added on a later date, as this glyph is usually placed on both sides of the headdress. Glyphs:   Dating:

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Key:  AMNH 164/322763 Actual Location:  American Museum of Natural History, New York, United States. Collection:  Marshall H. Saville Registration:  164/322763 Provenance:  Cuilapan, Oaxaca. Measurements:  68.5 cm. Color:  Light grey clay Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD  Click to view Chronology Reference:  Saville 1904: 58; Boos 1968a: vol. III, 27, plate X. Comments:  Discovered by Saville in 1902. He found it in front of a tomb in Cuilapan (Saville 1904: 59). The hands have been restored for the object's exhibition. Glyphs:  Glyph C in the headdress. The pectoral shows the glyph for "open corn grain", combined with glyph E. Dating:

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Key:  AMNH 30.0/1 Actual Location:  American Museum of Natural History, New York, United States Collection:  Mrs. Robert W. De Forest. Donated 8 April 1904. Registration:  30.0/1; Acc. 1904-25. Provenance:  Found in a mound, near a tomb, in the valley of Oaxaca, Winter 1903-1904. Measurements:   Color:  Beige clay with traces of red pigment in the mask in the headress (teeth) Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD  Click to view Chronology Reference:  Saville 1904: 51, photo p. 50. Comments:  This figure represents a woman holding a shield and a club. The mask in the headddress represents Cocijo. The piece was probably found with AMNH 30.0/4, a bat figure with the same headdress. Glyphs:   Dating:

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Key:  AMNH 30.0/4 Actual Location:  American Museum of Natural History, New York, United States Collection:  Mrs. Robert W. De Forest. Donated 8 April 1904. Registration:  30.0/4; Acc. 1904-25. Provenance:  Found in a mound near a tomb, in the vally of Oaxaca, Winter 1903-1904. Measurements:   Color:  Beige clay Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD  Click to view Chronology Reference:  Saville 1904: 51, photo on p. 50. Comments:  This object probably accompanied AMNH 30.0/1 and represents a man personifying a bat. In his hands he hold a shield and a club. Part of the club has broken off. Glyphs:   Dating:

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Key:  AMNH 30.0/8 Actual Location:  American Museum of Natural History, New York, United States. Collection:  Marshall H. Saville Registration:  30.0/8 Provenance:  Cuilapan, Oaxaca Measurements:  22 x 26 cm. Color:  Light grey clay Chronology:  Pitao 350 - 500 AD  Click to view Chronology Reference:  Boos 1964a: 77, plate II. Comments:  Probably a headdress fragment from a large effigy vessel. Corresponds to the butterfly. Glyphs:   Dating:

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Key:  AMNH 30.2/6099 Actual Location:  American Museum of Natural History, New York, United States Collection:  Heinrich Hinrichs Registration:  30.2/6099 Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  29.4 x 20 cm. Color:  Grey clay with traces of blue (feathers in headdress) & red (nose, corn ears, maxtlatl) yellow (pectoral). Chronology:  Late Xoo 600 - 800 AD  Click to view Chronology Reference:  Color drawing by Seler (1888) with the indication that it comes from the Heinrich Hinrichs Collection; Eubanks 1999: 125-126, fig. 99. Comments:  The right hand has been restored. Seler's drawing shows that the left hand is missing and the headdress does not have any broken parts, so it is possible that there may be two pieces. The color drawing presented here is based on Seler's watercolor. Glyphs:   Dating:

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