[Aztlan] Re: Wheeled animal effigies

[Diehl, Richard]

I have been monitoring the discussion on wheeled animal figurines on a sporadic basis and would just like to remind listeros that Margaret Mandeville and I published a fairly complete survey of wheeled animal effigies in Mesoamerica in the British journal Antiquity sometime during the late 1980s. I am on the road at the moment and do not have the year or citation at hand but I am certain that it can be found at the Antiquity website. We found scores of them at Tula and they are NOT toys. 
 
Saludos, y'all.
 
Dick Diehl

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Today's Topics:

   1. Two Enigmatic Wheeled Figurines (DWirth8851 at aol.com)


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Subject: [Aztlan] Two Enigmatic Wheeled Figurines
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While on the subject of wheels, I was looking  through my file and came
across Gordon Ekholm's "Wheeled Toys in Mexico,"  American Antiquity, Vol. XI,
April 1946, pp.222-228. Plate xxvi has two  very strange figurines with holes for
wheels (wheels missing). One has a rider  (legs there, but top portion
missing) on a saddle?? or at least a fillet for  support. The other is an animal with
a headdress, but has a bit and halter. I  located the latter in another book,
which also has a front view of the animal.  That illustration is in Florence
H. and Robert M. Pettit, Mexican Folk Toys:  Festival Decorations and Ritual
Objects (New York, Hastings House  Publishers, 1978), p. 15.

    In 1977 Dr. Ekholm answered my letter about the  figurine with the rider,
and he said: "[it] is from Oaxaca but has no exact  provenance. It was
obtained by Marshall Saville in about the year 1900, --  apparently purchased from a
local collector. In my article I suggested that it  might date to the time of
the first Spaniards in Oaxaca -- because of the rider  -- but now I am not so
sure of this. I have shown it to Ignacio Bernal and other  experts on Oaxaca
ceramics and they agree that it looks like a pre-Columbian  object. But no one
attempts to place it in any particular ceramic period."

The animal with the bit and halter is from Panuco, Mexico, a Huastec site. 
Once again, I've made illustrations and can send them to anyone who requests 
them.

Diane Wirth


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