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Key:  CPA 7 Actual Location:  Private collection in California. Collection:   Registration:   Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:   Color:   Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD  Click to view Chronology Reference:  Drawing based on a photo from Javier Urcid. Comments:  The human figure is holding an ear of corn in the right hand and a rope in the left hand. It is possible that this cord was used for the rite of bleeding. The figure is wearing a mask with attributes to Tlaloc and feathers hang from the ear pieces. The figure carries a big turtle shell on its back. Glyphs:   Dating:

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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. Glyphs:   Dating:

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Key:  MFR s/n 1 Actual Location:  Unknown Collection:   Registration:   Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:   Color:   Chronology:  Pitao 350 - 500 AD  Click to view Chronology Reference:  Paddock 1978, p. 55, fig. 12. Comments:  Drawing based on a picture by John Paddock, circa 1968, in Philippa Shaplin's hands. In the headdress, a mask of Tlaloc with the same iconography used in the Central Altiplano. For other examples, see EMB MNA 6-635, cm.A 44.78, MFVV 55.158 and MDO 32. For an analysis of this type, see Sellen 2002: 9. Glyphs:   Dating:

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Key:  MNA 6-4854 Actual Location:  National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City, Mexico. Collection:   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. Dating:

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Key:  MNA 6-275 Actual Location:  National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City, Mexico. Collection:   Registration:  6-275 Provenance:  Zaachila, Oaxaca. Measurements:   Color:  Dark grey Chronology:  Late Xoo 600 - 800 AD  Click to view Chronology Reference:  Eubanks 1999: 120, fig. 96. Comments:  This piece probably accompanies MNA 6-680, published in Caso and Bernal, 1952: 94, fig. 156. The glyph in the headdress, where is usually glyph C, has Tlaloc features. Glyphs:   Dating:

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Key:  MNA 6-836 Actual Location:  National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City, Mexico. Collection:  Fernando Sologuren #430; Manuel Martínez Gracida 1910: plate 97. Registration:  6-836 Provenance:  Zaachila, Oaxaca. Measurements:  42 cm. Color:   Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD  Click to view Chronology Reference:  Schlattman's photo circa 1901; Caso & Bernal 1952: 139-141, fig. 241; Mixtechi e Zapotechi (Mixtecs and Zapotecs), p. 140, fig. 85. Comments:  Caso and Bernal maintain that this vessel represents a "tlaloque" (a water-collecting helper for Tlaloc) and that the object held in the right hand is a stylized cloud. They also report that Linné believes that this same object is glyph L (1952: 139). There is an object identical to this one in the collection of the Smithsonian Institute, but more fragmented (see SMI 215065). Glyphs:   Dating:

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Key:  SOTH 1990.207 Actual Location:  Unknown Collection:  Sotheby Parke Bennet Auction, 2 May 1990. Registration:   Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  31.7 cm. Color:   Chronology:  Pitao 350 - 500 AD  Click to view Chronology Reference:  Auction's catalog, Sotheby's 1990: fig. 207. Comments:  A butterfly mask in the headdress. On both sides of the central mouth of this mask, two Tlaloc heads, turned. The piece is flanked by two bird wings. Glyphs:   Dating:

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