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An Introduction to the Ceramics of Tres Zapotes, Veracruz, Mexico
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An Introduction to the Ceramics of Tres Zapotes, Veracruz, Mexico

by Clarence Wolsey Weiant. 144 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Clarence Wolsey Weiant

Publisher:

  

Place of Publication:

  Washington, DC  

Publication Year:

  1943
Subjects:   Indians of Mexico--Pottery, Pottery--Mexico--Tres Zapotes, Tres Zapotes (Mexico)--Antiquities
Table of contents
CONTENTS
Preface XI
Introduction 1
Description of the archeological zone 1
The Cabeza Group 2
The Ranchito Group 3
The Arroyo Group 3
The North Group 3
The excavations 6
The Cabeza Colosal 6
Cabeza Group, Mound E 6
Stela A 7
Ranchito Group 7
Zone of the burials 7
Mound A 9
Mound C 9
Mound D and adjacent areas 10
Miscellaneous excavations 11
Mounds J and K 11
Mound F 12
Arroyo Group 12
The Plaza 12
The Long Mound (C) 13
Mound G (the Stone Platform) 13
Mound F 14
Mound B 14
Mounds I and J 15
Part 1. The pottery 16
Middle Tres Zapotes A: Classification 16
Unslipped or partially slipped wares 16
Monochrome wares 17
Dichrome (Red-and-White Incised) ware 19
Middle Tres Zapotes B: Classification 19
Unslipped or partially slipped wares 19
Monochrome wares 20
Wares with painted decoration 21
Upper Tres Zapotes: Classification 22
Unslipped or partially slipped wares 23
Monochrome wares 26
Pseudodichrome wares 29
Dichrome wares 30
Pseudotrichrome wares 30
Trichrome wares 31
The general Ranchito collection 55
Wares and their relative frequency 55
Classification and enumeration of sherds with painted decoration 56
Part 1. The pottery -- Continued. page
The general Ranchito collection -- Continued. PAGE
Forms and sizes of vessels 60
Forms of support 63
Handles 68
Spouted vessels 68
Distribution of forms according to ware 68
Decorative techniques other than painting 69
Miscellaneous and aberrant specimens 76
Specimens of special value for comparative purposes 80
Part 2. The figurines 84
Tres Zapotes figurines of archaic type 84
Classic Pointed-chin type (pls. 1, 2) 84
Classic Prognathous type (pl. 3) 84
Classic Rectangular-face type (pls. 4, 5) 85
Classic Beatific type (pls. 6, 7) 85
A typical Transitional type (pl. 8) 86
A typical Transitional type (pl. 9) 86
Typical Vaillant's A Type (pls. 10, 11, 12) 87
Typical Grotesque variants (pls. 13, 14) 88
Interrelation of typical types (pl. 15) 89
A Uaxactun type (pls. 16, 17) 90
Baby-faces (pls. 18, 19) 90
Morelos types (pls. 20, 21) 92
Variants (pl. 22) 93
Variants (pl. 23) 93
An aberrant group (pl. 24) 94
Two aberrant groups (pl. 25) 94
Miscellaneous variant and aberrant specimens (pl. 26) 94
Miscellaneous variant and aberrant specimens (pl. 27) 96
Profiles (pl. 28) 96
Early deities (pl. 29) 97
Major archaic types (pl. 30) 97
Unclassified (pl. 31) 98
Bodies (pls. 32-36) 98
Primitive Maya and allied types (pl. 37) 100
Figurines reflecting the high cultures 101
A Teotihuacán type (pl. 38) 101
Some Middle American deities (pl. 39) 102
Miscellaneous figurines (mostly unclassified) (pl. 40) 103
Mold-made Mayoid figurines (pls. 41, 42, 43) 104
"Totonac" figurines (pl. 44) 106
Some "Totonac"- Maya comparisons (pl. 45) 107
Whistles and musical instruments 108
Whistles of the Tuxtla region (pl. 46) 108
Ocarinas (pl. 47) 108
Bird effigies (pl. 48) 108
Birds and reptiles (pl. 49) 109
The coati-mundi and unidentified forms (pl. 50) 109
Monkeys and miscellaneous mammals (pls. 51, 52) 110
Tubular instruments (including a panpipe) (pl. 53) 110
Part 3. Miscellaneous ceramic material and work in stone 112
Special pottery and figurine fragments 112
Effigy handles (pls. 54, 55) 112
Effigy necks (pl. 56) 112
Sculptured pottery (pl. 57) 113
An effigy vessel, a figurine, and a mask (pl. 58) 114
Miscellaneous vessels, sherds, and pottery objects (pl. 59) 114
Miscellaneous effigies (pl. 60) 115
Limb fragments of jointed and large hollow figurines (pl. 61) 116
Miscellaneous clay objects 116
Seals (pls. 62, 63) 116
Spindle whorls and beads (pl. 64) 117
Ear spools, rings, and beads (pl. 65) 117
Work in stone (pls. 66-78) 118
Stone yokes 118
Metates, 118
Stone vessels 118
Stone rings 119
Sling stones 119
Human figures 119
Miscellaneous stone objects 119
Minor stone objects 120
Jade 120
Galena 121
Obsidian 121
Part 4. Synthesis 122
Problems 122
Differential features of Middle Tres Zapotes A and B and Upper Tres Zapotes 122
Q complex elements 124
The archaic question 124
The Olmec question 126
Relations with the Maya Old Empire 127
Relations with the Maya Renaissance 128
Relations with Teotihuacán 128
Relations with Totonacapán 129
Relations with Zapotecan culture 130
Relations with the Mixteca-Puebla culture 131
Relations with the Huaxteca 131
Aztec remains 131
General conclusions 132
Bibliography 133
Appendix. Inventories of representative burials 139
Index 141
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