Sculpture, Museo Nacional de Antropologia, Mexico City
Eagle representing Huitzilopochtli holding war glyph, above a prickly pear cactus which grows from the defeated goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, relief on the rear side of the Teocalli of the Sacred War, a temple style monument, possibly the throne of Motecuhzoma II, celebrating the victory of the sun and Mexica military prowess, basalt, late post-classic period, Mexica, Aztec, in the Museo Nacional de Antropologia, or National Museum of Anthropology, opened 1964, holding national collections of archaeology and ethnography, in Chapultepec Park, Mexico City, Mexico. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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