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Table 5.5- Data on handstones from Oaxaca.<br />

No. Provenience Carving Present location Notes<br />

1 Tomb in Etla Jaguar face<br />

topped by a<br />

‘Xicani’ face<br />

2<br />

Unknown Jaguar face<br />

topped by a<br />

‘Cociyo’ face<br />

3 Monte Albán Bat face with<br />

seven ‘Blood’<br />

4<br />

Central Valleys<br />

of Oaxaca<br />

glyphs<br />

Ethnographic Museum in<br />

Berlin<br />

The Art Museum, Princeton<br />

University<br />

Museo Nacional de<br />

Antropología e Historia, cat.<br />

no. 10-3289 (6-77)<br />

Plain Museo Nacional de<br />

Antropología e Historia, cat.<br />

no. 10-392947 (6-7978)<br />

Diameter 13.5 cm. Use to belong to the collection of Martínez<br />

Gracida, who provides data on provenience. He sold it to Seler.<br />

Documented by M. Gracida 1910 [II]: plates 13 y 14; published<br />

by Leyenaar and Parsons 1988: 169, no. 49 [these authors<br />

attribute the handstone to the Classic period, but the provenience<br />

is given as the Southern Gulf Coast Lowlands or the Pacific<br />

littoral of Guatemala; Anonymous 1992: 96 [attributed to Oaxaca<br />

but dated to Postclassic times].<br />

Diameter 14 cm. Attributed in the Museum records to Veracruz.<br />

Published by Goldstein 1988: 24, no. 171[the author interprets the<br />

lower image as that of a jaguar]; M. Miller 1989: 30, fig. 16 [the<br />

author interprets the lower image as the skeletal head of a deity]<br />

Diameter 10.4 cm. Used to belong to the Sologuren collection.<br />

Published by Seler (1904: 364, fig. 111) and Fernando (1992: no.<br />

14)<br />

Diameter 12.5 cm. Published by Fernando (1992: no. 15).<br />

208

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