Bowl, Museo Nacional de Antropologia, Mexico City, Mexico
Cuauhxicalli, a sacred ceremonial bowl used for sacrificial or self-sacrificial offerings to the gods, clay with polychrome decoration of zacatapayolli, maguey spikes and skulls, containing sacrificial spikes used to cause bleeding, Mexica, Aztec, from Tenochtitlan, in the Museo Nacional de Antropologia, or National Museum of Anthropology, in Chapultepec Park, Mexico City, Mexico. Picture by Manuel Cohen
Picture No
14153952
Media ID
46174054
Size
8268px x 5934px
(6.6MB)
Credit
Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans
Source
Photograph by Manuel Cohen
Date
2025
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