Saville mentioned numerous eagle heads with warrior faces, all of which are said to come from a grave in San Antonio Alto, Oaxaca. According to Saville, two of them are in the American Museum of Natural History, New York, one in the Solugurén Collection of the MNAH, Mexico City, and one - the one illustrated - in Berlin (Warwick Bray s. Correspondence Ethnologisches Museum 20 Sept. 1983, quoted from Saville, Goldsmith's Art 1920: 174). This information points to Eduard Seler or contemporary collectors, e.g. Sologurén. The discovery of a piece of gold depicting a typical Aztec eagle warrior in an Oaxaqueñan grave confirms the presence of the Aztecs in the Mixteca. It is possible that commissioned work by Mixtecs for Aztecs was also carried out far away from the central Mexican highlands in the Mixteca. Another interpretation sees the bird's head with open beak as Coxcoxtli, the indigenous forest fowl, from whose open beak the head of the flower and spring god Xochipilli peers out (cf. cat. nos. 180, 187 and Eisleb 1978: 101). n. 175-190). (V. König, 2003)