Sculpture, Museo Nacional de Antropologia, Mexico City
Altar of the new fire, relief of skulls and crossbones, where bundles of 52 sticks were burned in the Xiuhmolpillia festival or Ceremony of the New Fire, to mark the end of a period of time of 52 years, 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
Picture No
14153847
Media ID
45936571
Size
8268px x 5743px
(25.2MB)
Credit
Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans
Source
Photograph by Manuel Cohen
Date
2025
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