Mural, Museo Nacional de Antropologia, Mexico City, Mexico
Eagle warrior, a figure in black body paint wearing eagle headdress, wings and talons, holding serpent staff, standing on feathered serpent, detail, copy of a wall painting in the portico of Building A at Cacaxtla, Olmec-Xicalanca, c. 600-900, in the Museo Nacional de Antropologia, or National Museum of Anthropology, in Chapultepec Park, Mexico City, Mexico. This painting is a detail of a wider scene of a battle between eagle warriors and jaguar warriors. The Cacaxtla murals are naturalistic with influences from Teotihuacan and the Mayan culture. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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