Smithsonian Report, 1959—Mangelsdorf PLATE 4 
Figure 1—A prehistoric Zapotec funerary urn from Mexico with two 
representations of primitive corn ears in the headdress and one in the 
hands of the maize god. 
Figure 2.—Details of one of the ears shown above. It is 
probable that the slender column above the small ear 
was intended to represent the male spike of a prehistoric 
ear similar in some of its characteristics to the recon- 
structed ancestral form illustrated in plate 3, figure 3. 
