Sculpture, Museo Nacional de Antropologia, Mexico City
Tlaltecuhtli, earth monster or earth lord goddess, relief on a reused andesite block forming the base of a column in colonial times by the Spanish, 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. Images of Tlaltecuhtli were often made beneath sculptures so they were in contact directly with the earth. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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