Sculpture, Museo Nacional de Antropologia, Mexico City
Ceremonial brazier of woman dressed as Xilonen, goddess of tender corn, wearing quetzal feather headdress with paper fan decorations, holding a chicahuaztli or rattle stick and 2 corn cobs, detail, polychrome ceramic, Mexica, Aztec, 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. On the feast day of Xilonen, a woman dressed as the goddess was sacrificed, and a feast of corn followed. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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