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Title
Aztec, Mexica ear plugs : banana form.
Description
This non-matching pair of plugs represent a different style of body adornment used by the non-elite. They came in different sizes and shapes suitable to the wearer. The banana plug was worn by the Aztec and the Gulf Coast Huastec. It is possible they could be nose ornaments or ear plugs.
Subject
[Decoration and ornament--Mexico, Ceramic jewelry--Mexico, Aztec art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 1200 and 1521
Title
Aztec, Mexica ear plugs : banana form.
Description
This non-matching pair of plugs represent a different style of body adornment used by the non-elite. They came in different sizes and shapes suitable to the wearer. The banana plug was worn by the Aztec and the Gulf Coast Huastec. It is possible they could be nose ornaments or ear plugs.
Subject
[Decoration and ornament--Mexico, Ceramic jewelry--Mexico, Aztec art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 1200 and 1521
Title
Aztec, Mexica ear plugs : banana form.
Description
This non-matching pair of plugs represent a different style of body adornment used by the non-elite. They came in different sizes and shapes suitable to the wearer. The banana plug was worn by the Aztec and the Gulf Coast Huastec. It is possible they could be nose ornaments or ear plugs.
Subject
[Decoration and ornament--Mexico, Ceramic jewelry--Mexico, Aztec art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 1200 and 1521
Title
Aztec, Mexica ear plugs : banana form.
Description
This non-matching pair of plugs represent a different style of body adornment used by the non-elite. They came in different sizes and shapes suitable to the wearer. The banana plug was worn by the Aztec and the Gulf Coast Huastec. It is possible they could be nose ornaments or ear plugs.
Subject
[Decoration and ornament--Mexico, Ceramic jewelry--Mexico, Aztec art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 1200 and 1521
Title
Aztec body stamp : undulating serpent.
Description
A brownware stamp features a plumed undulating rattlesnake. Post Classic Aztec myth speaks of his forceful breath which caused the newly created sun to move. His name is Ehecatl-Quetzalcoatl, the plumed serpent of wind, rain, and agricultural fertility.
Subject
[Aztec sculpture--Mexico, Ceramic sculpture--Mexico, Aztec art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 1200 and 1521
Title
Aztec body stamp : undulating serpent.
Description
A brownware stamp features a plumed undulating rattlesnake. Post Classic Aztec myth speaks of his forceful breath which caused the newly created sun to move. His name is Ehecatl-Quetzalcoatl, the plumed serpent of wind, rain, and agricultural fertility.
Subject
[Aztec sculpture--Mexico, Ceramic sculpture--Mexico, Aztec art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 1200 and 1521
Title
Aztec body stamp : undulating serpent.
Description
A brownware stamp features a plumed undulating rattlesnake. Post Classic Aztec myth speaks of his forceful breath which caused the newly created sun to move. His name is Ehecatl-Quetzalcoatl, the plumed serpent of wind, rain, and agricultural fertility.
Subject
[Aztec sculpture--Mexico, Ceramic sculpture--Mexico, Aztec art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 1200 and 1521
Title
Aztec body stamp : undulating serpent.
Description
A brownware stamp features a plumed undulating rattlesnake. Post Classic Aztec myth speaks of his forceful breath which caused the newly created sun to move. His name is Ehecatl-Quetzalcoatl, the plumed serpent of wind, rain, and agricultural fertility.
Subject
[Aztec sculpture--Mexico, Ceramic sculpture--Mexico, Aztec art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 1200 and 1521
Title
Aztec body stamp : undulating serpent.
Description
A brownware stamp features a plumed undulating rattlesnake. Post Classic Aztec myth speaks of his forceful breath which caused the newly created sun to move. His name is Ehecatl-Quetzalcoatl, the plumed serpent of wind, rain, and agricultural fertility.
Subject
[Aztec sculpture--Mexico, Ceramic sculpture--Mexico, Aztec art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 1200 and 1521
Title
Aztec body stamp : monkey warrior.
Description
This anthropomorphic zoomorphic stamp illustrates a humanized monkey warrior, which carries a mace-like weapon and a shield. On his waist appears a longitudinal cross section of a shell, which can stand for Quetzalcoatl. The monkey image relates to Quetzalcoatl.
Subject
[Aztec sculpture--Mexico, Ceramic sculpture--Mexico, Aztec art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 1200 and 1521
Title
Aztec body stamp : monkey warrior.
Description
This anthropomorphic zoomorphic stamp illustrates a humanized monkey warrior, which carries a mace-like weapon and a shield. On his waist appears a longitudinal cross section of a shell, which can stand for Quetzalcoatl. The monkey image relates to Quetzalcoatl.
Subject
[Aztec sculpture--Mexico, Ceramic sculpture--Mexico, Aztec art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 1200 and 1521
Title
Aztec body stamp : monkey warrior.
Description
This anthropomorphic zoomorphic stamp illustrates a humanized monkey warrior, which carries a mace-like weapon and a shield. On his waist appears a longitudinal cross section of a shell, which can stand for Quetzalcoatl. The monkey image relates to Quetzalcoatl.
Subject
[Aztec sculpture--Mexico, Ceramic sculpture--Mexico, Aztec art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 1200 and 1521
Title
Aztec body stamp : monkey warrior.
Description
This anthropomorphic zoomorphic stamp illustrates a humanized monkey warrior, which carries a mace-like weapon and a shield. On his waist appears a longitudinal cross section of a shell, which can stand for Quetzalcoatl. The monkey image relates to Quetzalcoatl.
Subject
[Aztec sculpture--Mexico, Ceramic sculpture--Mexico, Aztec art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 1200 and 1521
Title
Aztec ceremonial censer : feather serpent motif.
Subject
[Ceramic censers--Mexico, Ceramic sculpture--Mexico, Aztec art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 1200 and 1521
Title
Aztec ceremonial censer : feather serpent motif.
Subject
[Ceramic censers--Mexico, Ceramic sculpture--Mexico, Aztec art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 1200 and 1521
Title
Aztec ceremonial censer : feather serpent motif.
Subject
[Ceramic censers--Mexico, Ceramic sculpture--Mexico, Aztec art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 1200 and 1521
Title
Aztec ceremonial censer : feather serpent motif.
Subject
[Ceramic censers--Mexico, Ceramic sculpture--Mexico, Aztec art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 1200 and 1521
Title
Azteca or Mexica votive food offering : waisted ear plug.
Description
The artifact's shape indicates a flared, waisted olla that contains patty-shaped objects, possibly masa or copal. If you hold the object vertically the object becomes a votive offering, but horizontally a waisted ear plug,
Subject
[Decoration and ornament--Mexico--Mexico, Valley of, Ceramic jewelry--Mexico--Mexico, Valley of, Aztec art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 1200 and 1521
Title
Azteca or Mexica votive food offering : waisted ear plug.
Description
The artifact's shape indicates a flared, waisted olla that contains patty-shaped objects, possibly masa or copal. If you hold the object vertically the object becomes a votive offering, but horizontally a waisted ear plug,
Subject
[Decoration and ornament--Mexico--Mexico, Valley of, Ceramic jewelry--Mexico--Mexico, Valley of, Aztec art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 1200 and 1521
Title
Azteca or Mexica votive food offering : waisted ear plug.
Description
The artifact's shape indicates a flared, waisted olla that contains patty-shaped objects, possibly masa or copal. If you hold the object vertically the object becomes a votive offering, but horizontally a waisted ear plug,
Subject
[Decoration and ornament--Mexico--Mexico, Valley of, Ceramic jewelry--Mexico--Mexico, Valley of, Aztec art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 1200 and 1521
Title
Azteca or Mexica votive food offering : waisted ear plug.
Description
The artifact's shape indicates a flared, waisted olla that contains patty-shaped objects, possibly masa or copal. If you hold the object vertically the object becomes a votive offering, but horizontally a waisted ear plug,
Subject
[Decoration and ornament--Mexico--Mexico, Valley of, Ceramic jewelry--Mexico--Mexico, Valley of, Aztec art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 1200 and 1521
Title
Azteca or Mexica votive food offering : waisted ear plug.
Description
The artifact's shape indicates a flared, waisted olla that contains patty-shaped objects, possibly masa or copal. If you hold the object vertically the object becomes a votive offering, but horizontally a waisted ear plug,
Subject
[Decoration and ornament--Mexico--Mexico, Valley of, Ceramic jewelry--Mexico--Mexico, Valley of, Aztec art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 1200 and 1521
Title
Azteca or Mexica votive food offering : waisted ear plug.
Description
The artifact's shape indicates a flared, waisted olla that contains patty-shaped objects, possibly masa or copal. If you hold the object vertically the object becomes a votive offering, but horizontally a waisted ear plug,
Subject
[Decoration and ornament--Mexico--Mexico, Valley of, Ceramic jewelry--Mexico--Mexico, Valley of, Aztec art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 1200 and 1521
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