Sculpture, Museo Nacional de Antropologia, Mexico City
Ceremonial brazier with image of Chicomecoatli, or Seven Serpent, goddess of corn, wearing red clothes and paper box headdress with rosettes and holding double corn cobs, Mexica, Aztec, polychrome ceramic, from Tlahuac, 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. A person dressed as the goddess was skinned and sacrificed at the annual Vedena festival. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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