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- Description
- Mexico: Mitla, Oaxaca; adult female boll weevil discovered in archaeological cultivated cotton at 900 AD. Actual size = 7mm.
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 12422
- Description
- State expansion: conquest glyph. Note that the lower portion is the same, the hill glyph with diagonal lines; this indicates "place of"; the upper part is different in each cast, indicating the name of the particular place. (Original teaching slide code: RL-7)
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 20527
- Description
- State expansion: conquest glyph; no longer are they advertising defeat of particular individuals, now they are advertising territorial conquests. The bird at the top is the place name; some have been linked to known sites outside the valley of Oaxaca. (Original teaching slide code: RL-6)
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 20526
- Description
- State expansion: change in warfare as state becomes expansionistic. No more danzantes; now Conquest Glyphs on the strangely shaped Building 1 (center); there are 40 conquest glyphs. (Original teaching slide code: RL-5)
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- 35mm slide: 20525
- Description
- State expansion: danzante. Another dead warrior; note awkward position of hand and castration; note also that they are often named (glyphs on chest); in all there are 320 of these. (Original teaching slide code: RL-4)
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 20524
- Description
- State formation (500-200 BC): danzante carvings, note nakedness (a sign of humiliation), also closed eyes--this is a dead elite warrior. (Original teaching slide code: RL-3)
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 20523
- Description
- State formation (500-200 BC): large wall of danzante carvings, were originally thought to be dancers, now considered evidence of personalized/chiefly warfare. (Original teaching slide code: RL-2)
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- 35mm slide: 20522
- Description
- Courtyard in Platform A with main Plaza beyond. (Original teaching slide code: RL-1)
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- 35mm slide: 20521
- Description
- Gold ring bearing headdressed "falling eagle" (symbol for the setting sun) or Cuautemoc. He bears in his beak the glyph meaning jade; from this are suspended a row of little bells; front view. Mixtec, Tomb 7, Monte Alban, Oaxaca, Mexico.
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 6023
- Description
- Monte Alban IV left - foot vase; center - tall jar; right - foot vase.
- Date of Photo
- Autumn 1952
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 4953
- Description
- Facing West across terraced and heavily occupied northern slope of Monte Alban.
- Date of Photo
- May 1966
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 11266
- Description
- Facing E across area of large terrace mounds, moderate to heavy pottery below N end of main site.
- Date of Photo
- May 1966
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 11265
- Description
- Monte Alban Danzante Figures. Monte Alban V Mixtec
- Date of Photo
- 1964
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 10168
- Description
- Oaxaca, Monte Alban looking northwest. Danzante pyramids in upper right. Monte Alban V Mixtec
- Date of Photo
- 1964
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 10167
- Description
- North Wall of Tomb 105.
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 9154
- Description
- Monte Negro Gray polished urn. height 15.7cm. Monte Alban, Period I
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 9145
- Description
- From north platform, looking down east side of plaza.
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 8474
- Description
- From south platform, just before sunset.
- Date of Photo
- Summer 1958
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 8473
- Description
- Aerial view from above the south platform, looking north. Aerial view. Monte Alban.
- Date of Photo
- Jan. 31, 1959
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 8472
- Description
- Mask of Bat-God. Monte Alban Period II
- Date of Photo
- Autumn 1952
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 6844
- Description
- Zapotec (?) Jade Plaque. Monte Alban Zapotec.
- Date of Photo
- 1954
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 6772
- Description
- Zapotec Jade. Glyph L on back. Monte Alban, Zapotec.
- Date of Photo
- 1954
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 6764
- Description
- Collar, formed of strands in turn of turquoise, coral, jade & gold beads, terminating in a row of gold beads alternating with bells; gold bracelet right foreground; 2 rings left foreground. Mixtec Tomb 7. Monte Alban V, Mixtec.
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 6029
- Description
- Monte Alban V, Mixtec. Brooch of gold, Falling Eagle (Cuautemoc). In beak he carries a butterfly. From this dangle 2 rows of tassels, followed by a row of bells. Mixtec Tomb 7 -Cuautemoc is symbol for the setting sun. In his beak he carries a butterfly, symbol of fire.
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 6028
- Description
- Gold and silver rings. Mixtec Tomb 7. Monte Alban V, Mixtec.
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 6027
- Description
- Translucent Tecali (Onyx marble) vase; jade beads. Tomb 7. Monte Alban V Mixtec.
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 6026
- Description
- 3 inch high gold mask of Xipe Totec -god of vegetation and corn, also the god of the workers in mosaics of turquoise and of the goldsmiths and silversmiths; Likely a belt buckle. Xipe Totec is the Flayed God. Monte Alban V, Mixtec.
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 6025
- Description
- Pectoral of gold representing a Jaguar Knight. Monte Alban V, Mixtec.
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 6024
- Description
- Gold ring bearing headdressed "falling eagle" or Cuauhtémoc. He bears in his beak the glyph meaning jade; from this are suspended a row of little bells; front view. Tomb 7 Cuauhtémoc is the symbol for the setting sun. Monte Alban V, Mixtec.
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 6022
- Description
- Five Pectorals representing Eagle Knights. Three gold bracelets. Tomb 7 Eagle symbol represents the sun and day. Monte Alban V, Mixtec.
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 6021
- Description
- Diadem and plume of gold. Tomb 7. Monte Alban V, Mixtec.
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 6020
- Description
- Stucco, super- imposed by turquoise covered skull, interior of skull painted red, believed to be of a warrior; shell "nose" and "eyes". Tomb 7. Monte Alban V, Mixtec.
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 6019
- Description
- Pottery mask (cylindrical).
- Date of Photo
- Autumn 1952
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 5125
- Description
- Monte Alban IV figurine:
- Date of Photo
- Autumn 1952
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 5098
- Description
- Figurine (San Lorenzo, D. Ecla, Oaxaca.).
- Date of Photo
- Autumn 1952
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 5097
- Description
- Figurine head
- Date of Photo
- Autumn 1952
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 5096
- Description
- jade carving
- Date of Photo
- Autumn 1952
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 5049
- Description
- Incense burner.
- Date of Photo
- Autumn 1952
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 4969
- Description
- Incense burners from the front (same as in slide #4967)
- Date of Photo
- Autumn 1952
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 4968
- Description
- Incense burners.
- Date of Photo
- Autumn 1952
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 4967
- Description
- Bowl interior, Mixtec red on buff.
- Date of Photo
- Autumn 1952
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 4966
- Description
- Left- pitcher, frog mouth; Right- pot.
- Date of Photo
- Autumn 1952
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 4965
- Description
- Left- heads, rattle; Right- tall ring base.
- Date of Photo
- Autumn 1952
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 4964
- Description
- Plate. Closer to Cholula than Monte Alban V
- Date of Photo
- Autumn 1952
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 4963
- Description
- Pottery vessels. Left- on side to show interior decoration; Right- upside down.
- Date of Photo
- Autumn 1952
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 4962
- Description
- Pottery vessels.
- Date of Photo
- Autumn 1952
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 4961
- Description
- 2 bowls.
- Date of Photo
- Autumn 1952
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 4960
- Description
- Left- bowl; Right- pot.
- Date of Photo
- Autumn 1952
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 4959
- Description
- Left- bowl with 3 legs & raised decoration on interior; Right- pot with solid handle, no spout.
- Date of Photo
- Autumn 1952
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 4958
- Description
- 3 bowls. Left- bowl on ring base.
- Date of Photo
- Autumn 1952
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 4957