Baessler-Archiv: Baessler-Archiv, 16=41.1968

Baessler-Archiv, 16=41.1968

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URN:: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-714814

Persistenter Identifier:: BV044347945

Titel:: Baessler-Archiv

Untertitel:: Beiträge zur Völkerkunde

ISSN:: 0005-3856

Erscheinungsort:: Berlin

Verlag:: Reimer

Erscheinungsjahr:: 1910

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

Wissensgebiet:: Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie > Allgemeines

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Persistenter Identifier:: 1498803499653

Titel:: Baessler-Archiv, 16=41.1968

Erscheinungsjahr:: 1968

Signatur:: LA 1255

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

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Titel:: N. F. Bd. 26, 1968, Heft 1

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

ßaessler-Archiv, Neue Folge, Band XVI (1968) 1 TWO ZAPOTEC URNS WITH IDENTICAL UNCLASSIFIED FIGURES DISPLAY AN UNIQUE MAIZE FERTILITY CONCEPT FRANK H. BOOS, Detroit A Zapotec furnerary urn 1 of importance was acquired by the indefatigable Doctor Eduard Seler in 1897, who recorded its provenience as the village of Jaxachi, in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, and who gave the urn to his beloved Museum für Völkerkunde of Berlin. The concept given expression by the Zapotec sacerdotal sculptor is so extraordinary, and the figure itself so rare, that it merits discussion. Only one other similar urn is known to exist. Ernest Fuhrmann in his Mexiko III shows at page 65 a reproduction of the figure on this urn which he says belonged to the TVaturhistorisches Museum of Vienna 2 . Unfortunately, Fuhrmann neglected to give the catalogue number of the urn. In an attempt to obtain a better photograph which would portray more clearly the essential detail, the author of this article discovered that this urn had never actually belonged to the Naturhistorisches Museum. The author then sought to find the urn in the Museum für Völkerkunde of Berlin, where it had been since its ownership by Dr. Seler. In the course of assembling a corpus of photographs of all known available Zapotec urns in the collections of the museums, the institutions of learning, the art galleries and the private collectors of Europe and the Americas, the author discovered a Zapotec urn in the British Museum which is practically identical to the Berlin urn 3 . The discovery of the urn in the British Museum, which had never been published, induced the writer to attempt to trace the whereabouts of the urn published by Fuhrmann. The interest of the author of this article in these companion pieces is heightened by the remarks made concerning the Berlin urn by the celebrated 1 Cat. No. IV Ca. 28 354. Height: 22 cm. Color: Light gray with vestiges of lighter gray. Provenance: Jaxachi, Oaxaca, Mexico. 2 Ernest Fuhrmann: Mexiko III, Hagen and Darmstadt, 1923. 3 Cat. No. 1946/AM 19/6. Height: 9.5 inches. Color: gray with almost a yellow buff tone. Provenience: Cuicatlan, Oaxaca. Ex-Collection of the Viscount Cowdray. 1 Baessler-Archiv XVI

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