Sculpture, Museo Nacional de Antropologia, Mexico City
Ocelocuauhxicalli, an ocelotl or jaguar, lord of the night and spirit animal of god Tezcalipoca, and cuauhxicalli or sacred vessel used for blood and hearts of human sacrifices to the gods of sun and earth (hollow in back), stone sculpture, Mexica, Aztec, from Tenochtitlan, 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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