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Key:  MNA 6-8086 Actual Location:  National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City, Mexico (exhibited). Registration:  6-6086, 6-6087, 6-6089, 6-6090 Provenance:  Inside tomb 104, Monte Albán, Oaxaca. Measurements:  21-23 cm. Color:  Grey clay with traces of red paint. Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Caso 1938: 76-85, figs. 101, 102; Caso and Bernal 1952: 101, 104, figs. 168, 168bis; Winter 1990: 127-128, fig. 54; Flannery and Marcus 1996: 210, 212-214, fig. 246. Comments:  These pieces were found behind the stone that sealed the tomb, at the foot of the skeleton, facing South. They were accompanying a larger, more complex vessel. Tomb 104 was excavated by Caso in 1937 and dated IIIA-IIIB.

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Key:  MNA 6-80 Actual Location:  National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City, Mexico. Registration:  6-80 Provenance:  Tlacochahuaya, Oaxaca. Measurements:  16 cm. Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Caso and Bernal 1952: 313, fig. 463. Comments:  This figure is holding an incense bag in the hands.

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Key:  MNA 6-713 Actual Location:  National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City, Mexico. Registration:  6-713 Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  31 cm. Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Caso and Bernal 1952: 243, fig. 388. Comments:  A piece is missing, probably a bag of incense. The rope can be seen in their hands and this is a typical posture for holding the bag. Glyphs:  Glyph E in the headdress. Glyph E superimposed on glyph C. In the upper part of glyph C, a jaguar's head.

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Key:  MNA 6-563 Actual Location:  National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City, Mexico. Registration:  6-563 Provenance:  San Sebastián, Puebla. Measurements:  20 cm. Chronology:  Pitao 350 - 500 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Caso and Bernal 1952: 161, fig. 283a. Comments:  Drawing based on Mendoza. Only the displayed headdress was illustrated. Glyphs:  3 C in the headdress.

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Key:  MNA 48 Actual Location:  National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City, Mexico. Registration:  48 Provenance:  Unknown Chronology:  Pitao 350 - 500 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Caso and Bernal 1952: 161, fig. 283b. Comments:  Drawing based on Mendoza. Only the headdress displayed was illustrated. Glyphs:  5 C in the headdress.

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Key:  MNA 6-566 Actual Location:  National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City, Mexico. Registration:  6-566 Provenance:  Tomb 6, Monte Albán, Oaxaca (see Caso and Bernal 1952: 161, fig. 282 c & fig. 280). Measurements:  26 cm. Chronology:  Pitao 350 - 500 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Caso and Bernal 1952: 159, fig. 280 & 161, fig. 283c. Comments:  Tomb 6 was excavated by Caso in period PMA I (1931-1932) and was dated MA II-IIIA. Glyphs:  1 C in the headdress.

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Key:  MNA 6-68 Actual Location:  National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City, Mexico. Registration:  6-68 Provenance:  Cerro de la Campana (Hill of the Bell), Suchiquiltongo, Oaxaca. Measurements:  43.2 x 53.5 x 37.7 cm. Color:  Grey clay. Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  L. Gamio 1946: 2 (technical report AT/DMP/INAH). Caso and Bernal 1952: 62-63, fig. 98; Winter 1990: 129, fig. 55. Comments:  Lorenzo Gamio found this piece in the antechamber of a tomb in the Hill of the Bell. It was placed in front of the entrance, with its back to it. Gamio said (1946: 2): "[The object] was mutilated. The right arm and the left leg are missing. It was deposited in the container used as incense burner. The destruction of this object was not caused by the action of time because, if the arm had broken, there would be fragments. But we looked for them unsuccessfully. Besides, the leg inside the container indicates it was an intentional move". The piece has been restored. Glyphs:  Caso and Bernal designate the glyph and numeral one hanging from the neck as "one tiger". Urcid (1992: 187) designates the glyph as "iota" and speculates that it could be a variation of glyph D.

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Key:  MNA 6-7400 Actual Location:  National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City, Mexico (exhibited). Collection:  Fernando Sologuren Registration:  6-00 Provenance:  Unknown Color:  Grey clay with beige. Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Comments:  This piece appears in a photograph of the Sologuren Collection, in the Seler file of the Ibero-American Institute in Berlin, Germany. Glyphs:  Glyph C in the headdress.

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Key:  MNA 7 venado Actual Location:  National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City, Mexico (exhibited). Provenance:  Temple "7 deer", offering 6, no. 1, Monte Albán, Oaxaca. Measurements:  29 cm. Chronology:  Pitao 350 - 500 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Caso and Bernal 1952: 150, fig. 254. Comments:  Restored piece. Caso and Bernal say (1952: 151) that this piece accompanied another more complex and that it represents the "God with Bird Head Piece", just like for tomb 77. The accompanying piece can be found under Caso and Bernal, page 204, fig. 340, a & b or in this catalog, under MNA 6-6052.

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Key:  MNA 6-6473 Actual Location:  National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City, Mexico (exhibited). Collection:  Guillermo de Heredia? Registration:  6-6473 Provenance:  Jamiltepec, Oaxaca. Measurements:  aprox. 20 cm. Chronology:  Peche 500 - 600 AD   Click to view Chronology Comments:  The provenance of this piece is known thanks to a photo kept at the Historical Archives of the National Anthropology Museum, box #12, no. 611. The photo shows the missing part: the left hand and foot. The exhibited piece has been restored on the same side, confirming that it is the same piece. It is possible that this piece belonged to the Heredia Collection. The huipil dress indicates that it must represent a woman. Similar pieces published in Caso and Bernal 1952: 281-281, figs. 428, 429, 430.

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Key:  MCO 2862 Actual Location:  Museum of Cultures of Oaxaca, City of Oaxaca, Mexico (exhibited). Registration:  2862 Provenance:  In front of the entrance to tomb 7, Monte Albán, Oaxaca. Measurements:  aprox. 60 cm. Color:  Grey clay. Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Caso 1932a: 19-20, fig. 32; Caso, 1932b: 466-467; Caso 1969: 43; Caso & Bernal 1952: 44, figs. a, b, c; Bernal 1979: 144, fig. 52. Comments:  This piece was found with another equal piece flanking a central piece. Caso and Bernal (1952: 46) identified them as Cocijos ("clearly identified as Gods of Corn"). Tomb 7 was excavated by Caso during the first PMA I period (1931-1932). The three pieces were found broken and, according to Caso, the position of the fragments demonstrated that the break had been intentional and that, after doing this, the pieces had been buried (Caso 1932a: 20). Glyphs:  Glyph C in the headdress flanked by two ears of corn.

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Key:  CMA 54.857 Actual Location:  Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, United States. Collection:  Donated by the Hanna Fund, 1954. Registration:  54.857 Provenance:  Unknown Measurements:  32.3 cm. Color:  Brown polished clay with traces of red pigment. Chronology:  Niza 100 BC - 200 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Milliken 1955: 60; Easby and Scott 1970: fig. 155. Comments:  Known as the "Scribe of Cuilapan" because it resembles a Chinese scribe. There is another almost identical piece at the Museum of Cultures in Oaxaca, but which is slightly taller. See MCO 1170. Glyphs:  Glyph 13 water in the headdress and 13 Q (flint) on the chest.

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Key:  MCO 0012 Actual Location:  Museum of Cultures of Oaxaca, City of Oaxaca, Mexico (exhibited). Collection:  José Juan Canseco 1850 Registration:  Cat. 0012/INAH 10-104350 Provenance:  Zaachila (Peñafiel 1893: 24) ; Mitla (F. León 1903?: 115); Cuilapan (N. León 1905: 403). Measurements:  33.5 x 17.5 cm. Color:  Polished brown clay with traces of red pigment. Chronology:  Niza 100 BC - 200 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Peñafiel 1893: 24-25; Calderón León 1903?: 115 [description]; Nicolás León, Mayan Hieroglyphs, 1896 & 1905: 403, plate 1, fig. 1; Caso 1928 (reproduction of the glyphs); Keleman 1943: vol. II, plate 123 d; Toscano 1944: 432; Covarrubias 1946: fig. 18; C Comments:  There is a head with the same properties as this piece (cf. Caso and Bernal, 1952: 337, fig. 500bis). There is also a complete piece at the Cleveland Museum (CMA 54.857). About the pieces, Caso and Bernal comment: "We do not know if we should include it with the figures of period II, because we have not found in Monte Albán, during our stratigraphic explorations, any objects of this style and the two that exist come from the old collections of the National Museum and the Museum of Oaxaca" (1952: 337). It was always said that this piece came from Cuilapan, but it seems to have been a mistake from León, as from the very beginning, it was established that its provenance was Zaachila. Glyphs:  Glyph 13 for water in the headdress and 13 Q on the chest. Bernal (1979: 103) interprets the glyphs as 13 water and 13 alligator's eye.

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Key:  MCO 0018 Actual Location:  Museum of Cultures of Oaxaca, City of Oaxaca, Mexico (exhibited). Collection:  cm.ROA-0018 / INAH 10-104344 Provenance:  Tomb of Los Reyes, Etla, Oaxaca (tomb registered in 1944). Measurements:  66 cm. Color:  Grey clay. Chronology:  Late MA IIIB-IV (Winter 1994: 86); Xoo 600 - 800 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Caso and Bernal 1952: 111, fig. 182; Winter 1994b: 86, plate 29. Comments:  Caso and Bernal use this figure to define category "God of the Bow in Headdress". They say: "Although it does not have a mask, it does have other properties, such as the big bow in the headdress, decorated with a rosette, the cape embroidered with embossed spheres and the flounce; but its ear pieces are decorated with figure M, with stellar eyes. The figure carries a bag in one hand and is standing, a position that is not characteristic of the figures representing this god we had described" (1952: 111). This studded cape worn by this figure is similar to one worn by a figure on a carved stone from Zautla, Etla.

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Key:  MNA 6-6221 Actual Location:  National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City, Mexico (warehouse). Collection:  Saville Excavation Registration:  Caso and Bernal 6-725/ MNA 6-6221 Provenance:  Tomb 1, Mound 7, Xoxocotlán, Oaxaca. Measurements:  51 cm. Chronology:  Xoo 600 - 800 AD   Click to view Chronology Reference:  Saville 1899: 355-356 & plate 22; Caso and Bernal 1952: 46, fig. 6. Comments:  Central vessel of a group of five. The headdress was reconstructed based on a photo by Saville (1899: plate 22). The left hand is missing. This hand was probably holding a bag of incense as shown by the vessel embedded in the facade of tomb 104 in Monte Albán.

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